Memories of Green

General Information[edit]

Areas Played: 1000 A.D. (outside of towns), Forest Ruins, Lost Sanctum (Millennia Wood), Melchior's Hut, Zenan Bridge
Composed by: Yasunori Mitsuda
Original Japanese Title: みどりの思い出 / Midori no Omoide
Time Signature: 4/4

Mitsuda recounted: [About "Memories of Green"] Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture (formerly Kumage County before the merger) where I was born and raised is a place rich in nature, with streams and hills, and the scenery that can be seen is truly beautiful and remains vivid in my memory. This is a song I wrote while remembering such scenery. [Yasunori Mitsuda] By the way, the Super Famicom can use up to eight sounds, but initially, there was an idea to include the ambient sounds of the field, so all the field music was made with only four sounds. [Yasunori Mitsuda] After that, the feature to play this sound effect was abolished (cry). If eight sounds had been used, the arrangement might have been different. [Yasunori Mitsuda]

[About "Memories of Green] "I feel like the way the strings are moved is very much my style. I want each line to have a proper singing melody."

"I actually wanted to add more delay, but the field was limited to only four sounds, so I used psychoacoustic techniques. Humans have the characteristic that when they perceive an initial delay, they hear the sound as if it was delayed even after the sound has disappeared (of course, there are frequency limitations)."

"Yes, this is a technique that uses the illusion of sound."

[Referring to the idea to include field ambient sounds on "Memories of Green"] "(Additional notes) When approaching the sea, the sound of the sea would play, and when approaching the forest, the sound of birds would play. Although we added a volume ID to the map, the character's movements were too fast, so the sound did not play as expected. Moreover, since the character would quickly enter a town or a forest, there was no time to listen to the environmental sounds, so this feature was removed at the end."

"Because of this, there wasn't enough time and the song was released as is without expanding the 4 notes into 8 notes."

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From: Music (Chrono Trigger) 

Transcription by Calldwr

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	title = "Memories of Green"
	composer = "Yasunori Mitsuda"
	arranger = "trans. Ryan Hoopes"
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