Tumbling Ice
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"Tumbling Ice" is a stage theme from Kirby's Return to Dream Land and Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe that plays in the latter half of White Wafers - Stage 3. It was composed by Jun Ishikawa.[1] This theme can be found as the 35th theme in the Jukebox and appears as the 43rd theme in the game's remake.
Composition[edit]
"Tumbling Ice" is a fast-paced and serious theme in E minor and 4/4. It starts with an F minor synth intro that presents one of the track's motifs. This motif is intonationally similar to the melody of Mosugaba's song. Ending with dissonant repetitions of an F, the piece modulalates to its main key of E minor, and an octave ostinato bassline begins. The new melody, played by a muted trumpet, somewhat resembles that of analogous E minor sections of "On the Path of Frosty Roadblocks". The phrase ends in parallel fourths. The intro motif is developed by the brass before suddenly modulating to F-sharp minor for a synth to repeat the intro. Rather than ending in a fanfare, it gradually moves down and ends up in A minor, at which point the variation of the intro motif heard prior repeats. The descent continues, and the original intro repeats. Instead of looping, it continues where it left off: slowly descending modulating passages, from F-sharp minor until eventually reaching E minor again. The track loops from the main section's melody.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | コロコロコーリ korokorokōri |
Rumbling-Tumbling Ice |
| Traditional Chinese | 滾啊滾啊冰塊 gǔn a gǔn a bīng kuài |
Rumbling-Tumbling Ice Cubes |
| Simplified Chinese | 滚啊滚啊冰块 gǔn a gǔn a bīng kuài | |
| Dutch | Tuimelijs | Tumble ice |
| French | Dégringolade glacée | Icy tumble |
| German | Rollendes Eis | Rolling Ice |
| Italian | Valanga di ghiaccio | Ice avalanche |
| Korean | 데굴데굴 얼음 deguldegul eol-eum |
Rumbling-Tumbling Ice |
| Brazilian Portuguese | Acrobacias glaciais | Glacial acrobatics |
| Spanish | Acrobacias glaciales | Glacial acrobatics |
