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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
K-6 is part of a [[ | K-6 is part of a [[Dragon Balls#Music|group of BGM]], each piece of which is used in more than one episode when [[Dragon Balls]] are glowing on screen. [[K-14]] is a more defined and developed presentation of the themes in K-6, and [[K-44]] is a short four-chime musical sound effect. | ||
K-6 is given the title "The DBs Are Glowing" on ''The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant'',<ref>{{Cite web|URL=https://kenisu.webs.com/dragonballbgm.htm|Website=The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant|Title="The DragonBall BGM Daizenshuu"|Date=11 June 2008|AccessDate=30 June 2019}}</ref> the most common source for fan titles of [[Shunsuke Kikuchi|Kikuchi]]'s compositions. However, kenisu did not identify the track's first usage in [[Dragon Ball Episode 1|episode 1]], which is before Goku meets Bulma. Instead, kenisu marked its debut to the scene where Bulma first enters the room with the [[Four-Star Ball]], and Goku notices it is glowing. In that scene, there is only a sound effect from the [[Hidenori Arai]] sound library, which kenisu called "A DragonBall!" (with an implicit attribution to Kikuchi). Then Bulma notices the Dragon Ball, and K-6 returns. This second instance of the piece was labeled as the first by kenisu. When Bulma pushes Goku aside and grabs the ball, a distinct second version of this theme debuts: [[K-14]]. | |||
K-6 is given the title "The DBs Are Glowing" on ''kenisu's Magicant'',<ref>{{Cite web|URL=https://kenisu.webs.com/dragonballbgm.htm|Website=The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant|Title="The DragonBall BGM Daizenshuu"|Date=11 June 2008|AccessDate=30 June 2019}}</ref> the most common source for fan titles of [[Shunsuke Kikuchi|Kikuchi]]'s compositions. However, kenisu did not identify the track's first usage in [[Dragon Ball Episode 1|episode 1]], which is before Goku meets Bulma. Instead, kenisu marked its debut to the scene where Bulma first enters the room with the [[Four-Star Ball]], and Goku notices it is glowing. In that scene, there is only a sound effect from the [[Hidenori Arai]] sound library, which kenisu called "A DragonBall!" (with an implicit attribution to Kikuchi). Then Bulma notices the Dragon Ball, and K-6 returns. This second instance of the piece was labeled as the first by kenisu. When Bulma pushes Goku aside and grabs the ball, a distinct second version of this theme debuts: [[K-14]]. | |||
==Compositional Analysis== | ==Compositional Analysis== | ||
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 Grandpa is glowing...?! | |||
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| Tonality | C+ | ||
| Length | 0:34 | ||
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| Catalog Number | K-6 | ||
| Composition | Shunsuke Kikuchi | ||
| Theme Groups | Dragon Balls | ||
| Debut and Release | |||
| Debut Year | 1986 | ||
| First Appears | Dragon Ball Episode 1 | ||
| Last Appears | Dragon Ball Episode 123 | ||
| Debut Release | Unreleased | ||
K-6 is the Kanzenshuu catalogue number assigned to an unreleased piece of background music (BGM) composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi for the Dragon Ball anime in 1986. The piece debuted in Dragon Ball Episode 1 which was broadcast on 26 February 1986.
Overview
K-6 is part of a group of BGM, each piece of which is used in more than one episode when Dragon Balls are glowing on screen. K-14 is a more defined and developed presentation of the themes in K-6, and K-44 is a short four-chime musical sound effect.
K-6 is given the title "The DBs Are Glowing" on The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant,[1] the most common source for fan titles of Kikuchi's compositions. However, kenisu did not identify the track's first usage in episode 1, which is before Goku meets Bulma. Instead, kenisu marked its debut to the scene where Bulma first enters the room with the Four-Star Ball, and Goku notices it is glowing. In that scene, there is only a sound effect from the Hidenori Arai sound library, which kenisu called "A DragonBall!" (with an implicit attribution to Kikuchi). Then Bulma notices the Dragon Ball, and K-6 returns. This second instance of the piece was labeled as the first by kenisu. When Bulma pushes Goku aside and grabs the ball, a distinct second version of this theme debuts: K-14.
Compositional Analysis
K-6 is built on a whole-tone scale beginning on C — C-D-E-F♯-G♯-A♯(-C), with an augmented triad (C+) as the root — in a very short ternary form built of two distinct phrases, the first of which returns in an altered form (A-B-A').
The antecedent phrase (Part A) is an ascending 1-4-6-3 chime progression. The dominant tones of the chimes are C-F♯-A♯-E, but there is a more distorted chime simultaneously striking D-G♯-C-F♯ (2-5-1-4), a strictly parallel dissonance. The third chime (A♯ clear, C distorted) is followed by a vibraphone strike on C, and the fourth chime is followed by a strike on F♯.
The consequent phrase (Part B) introduces the violins over the resonance of the last chime, switching to a diatonic pattern with a descending progression of three major chords in the first inversion: B-flat major (A♯/B♭-D-F), A-flat major (G♯/A♭-C-E♭), D major (D-F♯-A). As you can see, the root of each of these chords is a tone found in the C whole-tone scale. (Each chord has one tone that is not in that scale.) The violin's chords are mirrored by what seems to be a plucked or percussive string instrument. In this section, Kikuchi uses mark tree chimes as background color.
In A', the first chime returns, now followed by a low C in the vibraphone, which is followed by the violins softly playing the ascending 1-4-6-3 pattern in the background. This moves directly into the ending: a more stacked chime spelling out the full C+ triad which is also arpeggiated on the vibraphone.
Usage
Below is a table of every usage of K-6 in Dragon Ball.
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| Dragon Ball Episode 1: Goku turns around as the chime fades. (Part A. He has not met Bulma yet.) |
0:05: Just the first C chime, accompanied by a sound effect from the Hidenori Arai library. | 
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| Dragon Ball Episode 1: Bulma notices the four-star ball. |
0:04: Just the first C chime, again accompanied by the Arai SFX. This is followed by Part B of K-14. | 
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| Dragon Ball Episode 1: The three Dragon Balls are placed together. |
0:23: Part A and Part B (A' is cut as the scene changes to the Pilaf Gang). | 
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| Dragon Ball Episode 1: Mai explains the Dragon Balls to Pilaf. |
0:16: Part A only. | 
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| Dragon Ball Episode 4: Goku notices the three-star ball is glowing. |
0:08: The first two chimes of Part A are followed by the final chime of K-44. | 
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| Dragon Ball Episode 10: Pilaf is about to have all seven Dragon Balls. |
0:04: The C chime sounds at the very end of the episode, following the Arai SFX. | 
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| Dragon Ball Episode 11: Pilaf has a dream after gassing himself. Mai and Shuu wake him up to tell him they have the seventh Dragon Ball. |
0:53: Full track. (It is followed shortly thereafter by the K-14 variation.) | 
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| Dragon Ball Episode 11: Pilaf prepares to summon the Dragon. |
0:19: The track fades after the second chord (A♭) of Part B, as the scene shifts to Goku and co. trying to break out of their prison. | 
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References
- ↑ "The DragonBall BGM Daizenshuu" (11 June 2008). The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant. Retrieved: 30 June 2019.
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