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[[File:Road to Victory Sky Tower shared motif.png|thumb|left|320px|Having been created as dark and light counterparts to each other, "Road to Victory" and "Sky Tower" use musical phrases that strongly mirror each other in rhythm and progression, at approximately their respective halfway points.]] | [[File:Road to Victory Sky Tower shared motif.png|thumb|left|320px|Having been created as dark and light counterparts to each other, "Road to Victory" and "Sky Tower" use musical phrases that strongly mirror each other in rhythm and progression, at approximately their respective halfway points.]] | ||
Hirokazu Ando composed "Road to Victory" and "[[Sky Tower]]" at the same time as dark and light versions of the same tune, respectively.<ref>{{Cite|たとえば「スカイタワー」と「勝利への道」は、雰囲気は正反対ですが、実は"同じ曲の明るい版と暗い版”という"対になる曲"として同時期に作られました。|''Kirby's Return to Dream Land'' Sound Staff, [[Jun Ishikawa]] and [[Hirokazu Ando]]|''[[Kirby Wii Music Selection]]'' card.}}<br><br>([https://gigi9714.wordpress.com/2021/08/30/translation-of-the-kirby-wii-music-selection-card-with-comments-from-kirbys-return-to-dream-land-staff/ Translation]: ''For example, "Sky Tower" and "Road to Victory" have exact opposite atmospheres, and in truth, they were composed at the same time as "paired songs," a light version and a dark version of the same tune.'')</ref> Ando originally wrote "Road to Victory" as stage music for ''[[Kirby for Nintendo GameCube]]'', for a setting that would have been normal and bright at first but devastated and dark later on.<ref name="niconico"/> With these two light and dark versions of the stage motivating the composition of both "Sky Tower" and "Road to Victory", Ando also wrote the two songs to serve as the root of the game's soundtrack by embodying certain common driving musical motifs, making "Road to Victory" originally quite an important track to the game.<ref name="niconico">{{cite person|quote=カービィＷｉｉの曲なんですけれども、カービィＷｉｉをやる前から（中略）ゲームキューブの頃に企画なって、そのころ作った曲なんですけど、（中略）これはあるステージの曲だったんですね。（中略）最初普通の明るにステージであったものが荒廃になるとすごくなんか荒らされっていて（中略） (This is a song from Kirby's Return to Dream Land, but before Return to Dream Land, at the time of planning for the GameCube was when I wrote the song [...] It was a song for a stage somewhere [...] The stage was initially ordinary and bright but then ended up in ruins and became incredibly devastated [...])<br>二曲が、本意図を、他の曲の元りもなっていて（中略）なんても支配的と言うか、シンボリックなフレーズとして、色んなところに使うよにして…たから本意図、この曲、なんか重要な役割があるって言うね。 (For these two songs, the original intention was for them to be the basis for other songs [...] such controlling or symbolic [musical] phrases to be used in various places. So this song, in the original vision, was supposed to play a somewhat important role.) | Hirokazu Ando composed "Road to Victory" and "[[Sky Tower]]" at the same time as dark and light versions of the same tune, respectively.<ref>{{Cite|たとえば「スカイタワー」と「勝利への道」は、雰囲気は正反対ですが、実は"同じ曲の明るい版と暗い版”という"対になる曲"として同時期に作られました。|''Kirby's Return to Dream Land'' Sound Staff, [[Jun Ishikawa]] and [[Hirokazu Ando]]|''[[Kirby Wii Music Selection]]'' card.}}<br><br>([https://gigi9714.wordpress.com/2021/08/30/translation-of-the-kirby-wii-music-selection-card-with-comments-from-kirbys-return-to-dream-land-staff/ Translation]: ''For example, "Sky Tower" and "Road to Victory" have exact opposite atmospheres, and in truth, they were composed at the same time as "paired songs," a light version and a dark version of the same tune.'')</ref> Ando originally wrote "Road to Victory" as stage music for ''[[Kirby for Nintendo GameCube]]'', for a setting that would have been normal and bright at first but devastated and dark later on.<ref name="niconico"/> With these two light and dark versions of the stage motivating the composition of both "Sky Tower" and "Road to Victory", Ando also wrote the two songs to serve as the root of the game's soundtrack by embodying certain common driving musical motifs, making "Road to Victory" originally quite an important track to the game.<ref name="niconico">{{cite person|quote=カービィＷｉｉの曲なんですけれども、カービィＷｉｉをやる前から（中略）ゲームキューブの頃に企画なって、そのころ作った曲なんですけど、（中略）これはあるステージの曲だったんですね。（中略）最初普通の明るにステージであったものが荒廃になるとすごくなんか荒らされっていて（中略） (This is a song from Kirby's Return to Dream Land, but before Return to Dream Land, at the time of planning for the GameCube was when I wrote the song [...] It was a song for a stage somewhere [...] The stage was initially ordinary and bright but then ended up in ruins and became incredibly devastated [...])<br>二曲が、本意図を、他の曲の元りもなっていて（中略）なんても支配的と言うか、シンボリックなフレーズとして、色んなところに使うよにして…たから本意図、この曲、なんか重要な役割があるって言うね。 (For these two songs, the original intention was for them to be the basis for other songs [...] such controlling or symbolic [musical] phrases to be used in various places. So this song, in the original vision, was supposed to play a somewhat important role.) | ||
|name=Hirokazu Ando|url=https://archive.org/details/kirby25thniconicointerview|title=Kirby 25th Anniversary livestream interview <nowiki>[13:36-15:32]</nowiki>}}</ref> The importance of "Road to Victory" is noticeable in how it was originally featured as the music for the ''Kirby for Nintendo GameCube'' E3 2005 trailer, and the shared history and vision behind the two songs is evident in how " | |name=Hirokazu Ando|url=https://archive.org/details/kirby25thniconicointerview|title=Kirby 25th Anniversary livestream interview <nowiki>[13:36-15:32]</nowiki>}}</ref> The importance of "Road to Victory" is noticeable in how it was originally featured as the music for the ''Kirby for Nintendo GameCube'' E3 2005 trailer, and the shared history and vision behind the two songs is evident in how "Supreme Ruler's Coronation - OVERLORD" transitions directly from "Road to Victory" to "Sky Tower", highlighting their similarities. | ||
Whereas "Sky Tower" makes use of a somewhat light-sounding combination of piano, guitar, and aerophone samples, "Road to Victory" is an imposing orchestral composition, starting with a brief prelude of orchestral hits and continuous percussion. The first portion is in D [[wikipedia:Dorian mode#Modern Dorian mode|Dorian mode]] and is built around a phrase with an ascending progression of D-G-A expressed in brass and woodwind samples, mirroring the ascending piano progression of "Sky Tower". After around half a minute, the track shifts to a motif that mirrors the motif of the second half of "Sky Tower". Each phrasing of the motif modulates rapidly through F major to elaborate further in G minor, with strings being most prominent in the first instance but brass sounds dominating the second. After a culmination of this portion still in G minor, the tune returns to a D minor mode to explore variations on the D-G-A progression with some use of electronic instrumentation, before looping back to the beginning. | Whereas "Sky Tower" makes use of a somewhat light-sounding combination of piano, guitar, and aerophone samples, "Road to Victory" is an imposing orchestral composition, starting with a brief prelude of orchestral hits and continuous percussion. The first portion is in D [[wikipedia:Dorian mode#Modern Dorian mode|Dorian mode]] and is built around a phrase with an ascending progression of D-G-A expressed in brass and woodwind samples, mirroring the ascending piano progression of "Sky Tower". After around half a minute, the track shifts to a motif that mirrors the motif of the second half of "Sky Tower". Each phrasing of the motif modulates rapidly through F major to elaborate further in G minor, with strings being most prominent in the first instance but brass sounds dominating the second. After a culmination of this portion still in G minor, the tune returns to a D minor mode to explore variations on the D-G-A progression with some use of electronic instrumentation, before looping back to the beginning. | ||
