SC-88Pro - Romantic Children (ZUN arrange) - 東方怪綺談 ～ Mystic Square - Touhou MIDI

Romantic Children
Stage 3 theme
www.shrinemaid...
th5_06.mid
Recorded on a real SC-88Pro. ® ZUN / 上海アリス幻樂団
Years ago, ZUN's site had a page called "東方幻想的音楽", where MIDI files made for the Roland SC-88Pro could be downloaded for free. Between 1999 and 2001, ZUN posted arrange versions of many PC-98 Touhou Project tracks and arranged the entire Seihou Shuusou Gyoku OST. He also posted the Torte Le Magic OST and 6 tracks known as "ZUN's Strange Works". They only sound as intended on this module.
The PC-98 arrangements include select tracks from 東方靈異伝 ～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers (Touhou 1), 東方封魔録 ～ the Story of Eastern Wonderland (Touhou 2), 東方夢時空 ～ Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream (Touhou 3), 東方幻想郷 ～ Lotus Land Story (Touhou 4) and 東方怪綺談 ～ Mystic Square (Touhou 5). Please don't call these "remix" or "remastered". These words don't mean what you think they do!
ZUN's PC-98 Touhou MIDI arrangements for SC-88Pro playlist: • SC-88Pro - ZUN PC-98 T...
秋霜玉 (Seihou 1: Shuusou Gyoku) arranged: • SC-88Pro - 秋霜玉 (Seihou...
トルテ ル マジック (Torte Le Magic) OST: • SC-88Pro - トルテ ル マジック ...
その他の作品 ～ ZUN's Strange Works: • SC-88Pro - ZUN's Stran...
ZUN's comment:
Thank you for downloading this song.
This is Romantic Children from Mystic Square.
I want to feel nostalgic about it, but I really don't remember this song much.(^^; Since I had no other choice, I remade it while listening to the FM version. As a result, it's pretty faithful to the original.
Since I don't remember anything from when I made the song, that means it wasn't that hard to make. However, when it came time to rearrange it, I was surprised at how the chords are a lot more complex than they sound. Then it's almost three minutes before it loops. This song is just full of mysteries... I wonder if I even made it. (^^;
As for the arrangement, I'm pretty satisfied with it. I stressed the romanticism across the whole thing. While listening to the original, I must have made the song with the idea of a precocious child in mind. With the latter half of the original song's intense, violent percussion, that seems to be the right answer. That does indeed bring out the childishness of the song. (Really now? (^^;) Lately, I've been checking out using MIDI, but it turns out that it takes a strangely long time to write songs in it, but as I've been experimenting with the effects as well, it's starting to speed things up as I learn them. This song took about 2-3 hours to make. (^^; But then again, if you don't listen to it with an 88 Pro, it's pointless. (;_;
Well, I'll see you in the next song.
ZUN
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このたびは、ダウンロードしていただきありがとうございます。
東方怪綺談より【 Romantic Children 】です。
なつかしい... と思いきや、この曲ほとんど覚えてなかったです(^^;仕方がないので、 ＦＭ版を聴いてから作りました。ですのでかなりオリジナルに忠実になってます。
で、全然作った時のことを覚えていなかったのですが、そういう曲ってたいていは作るの に苦労しなかった曲なんですね。 でも、いざアレンジしようとしたら、聴いた感じ以上に複雑なコードでびっくり。 さらにループまで３分ほどと長め。 謎の多い曲だ...　ほんとに私が作曲したのだろうか(^^;
アレンジの出来具合は、かなり満足げ。 全体的にロマンチック部分を強調しました。こうして聴いてみると、ませたお子様って イメージで創っただけあるね。後半部分の激烈に激しいドラムはオリジナルがそうだっ たからそうしてみたけど、やっぱ正解だわ。あれが子供らしさを出している（ほんとか?(^^; 最近、Midiの勉強と実験をしていて、作曲に微妙に時間がかかるようになっていたのですが さらに最近、新しいエフェクト操作にも慣れて速くなってきました。 この曲も２～３時間で出来たしね(^^; もっとも、88Pro で聴かないとそれも意味ないというのが(;_;
ではまた次の曲で逢いましょうか　ＺＵＮ

[@MotherGapshin12]

I feel slightly emotional hearing this remix, there is something playful and cute yet melancholic and sad about Romantic Children.
Very fitting for Touhou 5, almost like there was a chance that this would be the final game in the series.
Farewell to the dolls of Fantasyland.

[@Gyrokun]

that theory was made even more apparent to me by the epic seriousness of The Last Judgement in stage 5 too
(and let's not forget Shinki's godly theme and Alice in Wonderland)

[@magicalmelancholy970]

This song makes me think of those memories we have of playing with those childhood friends whose faces we don't even remember anymore.

[@zturtle1630]

Ooo, that one hit hard. Totally see what you mean too

[@kapifromnevada4697]

Tsuba pfp

[@DetrimentalDerivation]

1:59
In the context of MS Stage 3, this reminds of me of driving down a busy city interchange in the early night.
The orange-red sodium glow lightly, warmly bathing the road, the skyscrapers with their almost-celestial pinpoints of light, and the energetic trailing of the car lights, as their dim chassis indifferently and indefinitely move to and fro.
The Makai of this stage has a surreal quality of modernity and magic in accordant interplay.

[@user-lc1bk6wl4f]

幻想的音楽人気投票で入れれないのか…

[@nekodesu64]

原曲も素晴らしいのに作ったことを覚えていない・・・圧倒的強者感

[@potetodaze]

原曲では、重低音が主張しすぎで主旋律を見失いがちでしたが、こっちはそんなことも無く、よりロマンチックな曲に仕上がってますね！

[@user-xx1wm7zl4u]

これもオリジナルとは違った良さがあるよなぁ
本当に良いアレンジ

[@__Kaiane]

このアレンジが一番曲名とマッチしててすき

[@epiphaniedbyjinsvoice3973]

So melancholic... Beatiful and... Hopefull...
This sounds like a child.

[@ベストホーム]

この曲ほんとすき
原曲おすすめを10個選ぶならこの曲は絶対入れる自信ある

[@TORISAN-CHUNPII]

存在しない記憶を思い起こされて、涙腺刺激してくる😢🎶

[@user-xg2xb3op6j]

FMとのバランスが結構いいと思うんだよね…自分の中では旧作で1番好きと言っても過言ではない曲なのでアレンジは嬉しい！

[@user-yz3ws6tl7s]

なんだか懐かしい気分になってくる…泣ける

[@user-jy6ze7oe4e]

今更このアレンジにたどり着いたけど凄すぎてわろてもた

[@user-xc6gg3gw4m]

こっちの方がロマンティックチルドレン

[@user-vj8xo6gs3w]

思春期のアリスって感じがする(伝われ)

[@user-mz5ez9ux8i]

泣ける

[@Ninohe_Touhou]

明るいのもいいなぁ…

[@hinanai_mania7002]

あらまあ…がちでロマンチック…

[@user-xw4qh2dv8s]

爽やか

[@exploshaun]

this is so beautiful.

[@prizmastarz742]

oh noes i just sang Doll Judgement while listening to this

[@angelLPFSloquendo]

God!!! this is AWESOME!!! :'D

[@phony2950]

漂うアンダーテール感

[@Cptcat.]

why is this so sad?

[@santiagosalas7088]

Wow nice

[@m_text]

I hear treacherous maiden ~ judas kiss

[@user-hc4ks9ft1k]

こっちはエンドロール感がある

[@sakuranoyoru1709]

何と言うか、阿礼の子供と対比的な雰囲気

[@sakuranoyoru1709]

どっちも怪奇的ではあるけど、それぞれ両極端といったふうな

[@ghost_dog97]

Yo I like this version better!

[@MsZsc]

Was that major key

[@PokemonHayley]

I KNOW RIGHT
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. The intro sounds strangely happy.

[@Transitmaster8500]

Wait really? Oh that's why it sounds different!