Is it MOZART or POKÉMON? Composers Take Quiz
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Published 2022-10-19
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All Comments (21)
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Fun Fact: During an interview with Mozart, he admitted that during his childhood, he played a lot of Pokemon, so a lot of his music were inspired by Pokemon. That's why they're so similar.
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this was fun bc its really boiled down for me to "its pokemon bc i recognize it"
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People obviously are more familiar with “Pokemon” than the composer’s name but I think he should get more credit: Junichi Masuda 👍🏆
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As a classical musician who grew up playing ridiculous amounts of Pokémon I feel like I was born for this
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Mozart must have played a lot of Pokémon growing up!
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“Who’s that Pokemon?” …pikachu? “IT’S MOZART!!!”
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This is making me want to hear Mozart music done in 8-bit game boy sounds to see if I can imagine the compositions in a Pokemon game
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Watched a compilation of Mozart's progression from like aged 4 till 40ish and it was clear that a LOT of video game music is influenced by him. Being in the public domain helps a lot with it too.
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So interesting to see you guys talk all music theory, when my reasoning is always "I don't remember hearing this in pokémon so it has to be Mozart"
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Me, brute-forcing my way through this with 20+ years of Pokemon music burned into my skull: Wow, I'm really good at understanding Mozart's musical signatures.
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The funniest fact about this is that you can play it even if you have no idea about one of the two things, because it is then just “Mozart or not” or “Pokémon or not”!
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Pro tip for distinguishing Mozart and Pokémon themes: try to find the one that can be played on loop in perpetuity that one is the Pokémon theme. Although Mozart music is usually centered around a theme, seldom is that theme the thing on repeat, usually it’s restated in context with other contour, harmonies, etc.
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I love that they determined it from all this fancy music theory and were all “ah yes but this one doesn’t have the third minor florbledip so it must be Pokémon.” And I’m like “DATS THE BIKE SONG.”
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Next up: is it a jazz standard or a sinnoh theme?
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A big tip of the hat to Junichi Masuda, the primary composer for the Pokemon franchise. I suspect he's a big Mozart fan given how similar the melody and song structures are when stripped down to their basic elements.
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One consistent thing about Pokemon games has been the music, no matter how bad the games are or mediocre they are they just deliver with the music
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Okay, this is a pretty genius idea.
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It goes to show that Junichi Masuda actually was trained classically at a young age!
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A lot of these were originally constructed with 8bit and 16bit sound’s making this all the more impressive
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#5 was incredibly different. It didn’t feel classical, it felt like you were entering the climax of a Pokémon journey. Yet I couldn’t help but pick Mozart.
