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Music and the Fictive Dream 2: Dragon Ball Super

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Ultra Instinct Theme             Yeah yeah, so I like dragon ball. If you haven't seen the original series, make a point to go and watch it sometime, because that is some quality content. The Dragon Ball storyline and creation all came from Akira Toriyama, but the art behind the manga and the anime is from Toyotarou. Toriyama has created the Dragon Ball content all the way from the original to where it is now in Dragon Ball Super. The last episode of the anime was released on March 25, 2018. The content of this series has Japanese origin of course, but it is now available in English for the manga and for the anime.  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -           The piece of the show that I am analyzing today is the Ultra Instinct Theme , created by the Toyotarou studio, released in 2018. This musical masterpiece is the quintessence of the storyline. This music plays when Goku is able to master the most difficult form known even to the gods. It is when this music plays that the most

Music and the Fictive Dream: Legend of Zelda

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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

The Role of the Performer - The Piano Guys

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  The Piano Guys have been an all-time favorite of mine for almost ten years. They started in a piano shop in Utah and released their debut album in 2011. Technically they are the duet of pianist Jon Schmidt and cellist Steven Sharp Nelson, but Paul Anderson is the man who owned the piano shop where it all started and was the first to record the music and post them on youtube. Anderson was just looking for a new way to market pianos, he thought that viral videos would help with the marketing process. In his search for internet fame, Jon Schmidt literally walked in one day to ask if he could practice on one of the pianos, and the rest is history. Schmidt had known Nelson for a while, and along with Nelson's talent and creativity, the group quickly became an internet sensation. They were known for beautifully blending popular music pieces together in ways that leave the audience in awe, using mainly the cello and piano of course.  Kung Fu Piano: cello ascends This song has always bee