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'Grandma' is Much More Than its Composition

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Jonathan Barouch

This beloved track from the NieR games just isn't that dense on the page. What else is going on under the hood?

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zakid's "Snow in Summer" Arrangement:
   • Snow in Summer (NieR Replicant v 1.22...  
KeRIIval's upload of the instrumental track:
   • Video  

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Portuguese subtitles by Pether2108
Italian subtitles by elena
Feel free to send subtitles of any language to my business email, and I will publish them!
.srt format with time stamps preferred, but I'll accept anything as long as I know what lines should show at what time.

The NieR soundtrack was written by Keiichi Okabe, MONACA, and Takafumi Nishimura. NieR is owned by Square Enix.

Other music featured, in order:
"Hills of Radiant Winds" NieR Replicant ver.1.22 OST
"Snow in Summer" NieR Repliant ver.1.22 OST
"Postmeridie" Puella Magi Madoka Magica OST by Yuki Kajiura
"Puella in somnio" Puella Magi Madoka Magica OST by Yuki Kajiura
"The Wretched Automatons" NieR Gestalt/Replicant OST
"Song of the Ancients / Devola" NieR Replicant ver.1.22 OST

0:00 What's in a Name?
1:04 Similarities in the Soundtrack
2:10 Baby's First Sponsorship
3:15 What Time Signature? Yes.
4:00 Why NieR OST Credits Suck
5:13 No Really, What Time Signature?
5:58 The Harmony Loop
6:36 A Major Exception
8:42 Resolution in Limbo
9:57 Is "Grandma" Even About Grandma?
10:37 The Music Cue Matters
12:09 It Really Is That Simple
13:09 Attack Velocity
14:15 The Human Voice
16:09 Expression in Ensemble
17:23 Please Listen to These Strings [Music]

Correction:
1:30 "Song of the Ancients" is actually natural minor most of the time

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