Dragon Quest

[Pendy]

Some Dragon Quest love would be cool, or at the least opening theme which is pretty powerful.

[Tommy Tallarico]

I am not familiar with a lot of the Dragon Quest music yet we get a lot of requests for it. Koji Kondo asked me if we ever played Dragon Quest as well.

Could someone please make me a list of the best songs. .mp3's would be great as well.


Tommy

[Pendy]

There's too many for me to choose from. Any of the battle music is great but there so many good town/castle/overworld tunes as well. Most people would recognize the DQ overture (which has been done at the beginning of all the main 8 DQ games) especially after how popular the first DQ for the NES was when there was that Nintendo Power promotion. But this might be a good indication: http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/dragon-quest-live-in-concert-best-selection It's a best of DQ in concert music but it only includes music from DQ1-5. http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/dragon-quest-symphonic-suite-complete-cd-box That is link to the DQ1-7 box set that has all the music from the games and of course there's this: http://downloads.khinsider.com/dragon-quest It has a list and MP3's to all of the DQ music CD's. The composer Koichi Sugiyama is a genius and through the Dragon Quest music he was probably the first one to legitimize video game music in Japan. Whenever he does a concert it's a huge event. His DQ music has always had a great classical music taste to it.

[Swish]

I am not familiar with a lot of the Dragon Quest music yet we get a lot of requests for it. Koji Kondo asked me if we ever played Dragon Quest as well.

Could someone please make me a list of the best songs. .mp3's would be great as well.


Tommy
I'm shocked!

Dragon Quest is legendary!

I mentioned cultural differences for your unspecified Japanese venture a minute ago in another thread, but yeah, if you're going there you bring Dragon Quest with you. Bonus points for getting Sugiyama-san on stage.

Pendy's covered the bases with the Symphonic Suites. Also bear in mind that the entire Dragon Quest VIII score was orchestrated too.

The thing about Koichi Sugiyama is he has always written his music for orchestral performance (and in the past had audio programmers to interpret and sequence it), so that's the arrangement side already sorted.

It's probably none too useful, but I'd recommend giving these albums a listen. There's nothing in here you won't here performed better in one of the Symphonic Suites, but you get to hear some Dragon Quest in the context of a larger general games concert, and you might find something else you want to include. Sugiyama-san, Yoko Kanno and Kousuke Onozaki conducted the whole shebang:

Game Music Concert (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/6017)
Game Music Concert 2 (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/508)
Game Music Concert 3 (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/509)
Game Music Concert 4 (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/510)
Game Music Concert 5 (http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks/511)