Dark Clouds (theme from Kirby: Triple Deluxe)
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- This article is about the pre-boss theme from Kirby: Triple Deluxe. For the Kirby Mass Attack song with the same name in American English, see Dark Clouds.
"Dark Clouds" is a theme from Kirby: Triple Deluxe composed by Jun Ishikawa.[1] It primarily plays in boss stages of the game, prior of the boss encounters themselves, and also plays in the battle against Sectonia Vine.
Composition[edit]
"Dark Clouds" is an eerie and intense song in D minor and 4/4. The song features a steady and simple percussion pattern that never changes and has a constant rhythm of one eighth note, two sixteenth notes, one eighth note, two sixteenth notes, one eighth note, six sixteenth notes. It opens up with a sinister brass instrument playing a couple notes, which is followed up by a quiet piano. Its simple and melancholic main melody then kicks in, made of a pattern of a bar with eighth notes (some dotted), a bar with a whole note, a bar with quarter notes (sometimes with a dotted quarter or an eighth note as well), then a bar with a whole note. After two uses of this pattern, a counter melody made of choirs of eighth notes on repeat, always with an eighth rest between them, joins in, marking the song's tempo; the choirs of this counter melody slowly go up in pitch as the song progresses. After two more repeats of this four-bar pattern, the song essentially loops, going back to the very beginning of the track, with a slight different intrument for the first two bars, however.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| Japanese | 光なき暗雲 Hikari naki an'un |
Dark Clouds without Light |
