The Music of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

DDD’s focus on innovating older melodies rather than just reappropriating motifs will mark a change in the series’ musical direction. In this video, we’ll establish the connections--and more generally, the underlying musical advancements--that Dream Drop introduced to the series through Shimomura’s changing compositional philosophy for the game and how she, Ishimoto, and Sekito were able to assist or clarify the story narrative from a musical perspective, establishing instrumental and harmonic signifiers that will persist in future games. Table of Contents: 00:00​ - Introduction 02:20 - Track Categorization chart 06:27 ----- I • Notable Unconnected Tracks 18:57 - Reused Tracks 28:24 ----- II • DDD's Evolutionary Melodies 32:08 ----- III • DDD's Connection Diagram 32:23 - Flick Rush 33:32 - Dreams 36:06 - Traverse Town 37:38 - The World That Never Was 41:36 - Organization XIII 42:53 - Xehanort & Young Xehanort 44:55 - Xemnas 48:12 - DDD's Credits Medley 49:37 - Dearly Beloved 54:15 - Dive into the Heart 55:34 - Ansem 1:01:05 - Conclusion — ~Resources~ Read-along script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N... Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Charts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wlk... — ~Ko-fi~ I very much appreciate coffee donations if you enjoyed the presentation! https://ko-fi.com/davidrussell — Thanks for watching! Lots of folks to thank for helping with this video: Kinode (@GlassOstinato) for consultation, KH-Vids for being a wonderful resource for extracting game footage,   / kh-stock   for their extremely useful KH media cutouts, 13th Vessel for the "DDD Sound Ideas components" of Dearly Beloved, and finally: to the KH community for being crazy fun to talk about this kind of stuff with!! The next game I'll address will be 0.2; please look forward to it! Get in touch with me:   / davidrussell323     / davidrussell323     / www