M201
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| M201 | |||
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 The narrator tells of the ancient legend of the Dragon Balls. | |||
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| Tonality | 12-tone/C7 | ||
| Length | 1:29 | ||
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| Catalog Number | K-201 | ||
| Composition | Shunsuke Kikuchi | ||
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| Debut Year | 1986 | ||
| First Appears | Dragon Ball Movie 1 | ||
| Debut Release | Daizenshuu (1994 CD) | ||
| BGM Suite | The Legend of Shenlong | ||
M201 is the Kanzenshuu catalogue number assigned to a piece of background music (BGM) composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi for Dragon Ball: The Legend of Shenlong. The film premiered at Toei Manga Matsuri on 20 December 1986.
Overview
M201 is a very atypical composition among Shunsuke Kikuchi's Dragon Ball works. It is very loosely centered on C, the dominant of F Minor—the film's main key—but the piece is largely atonal and employs a composition technique known as serialism. The full composition is part a of the suite entitled "The Legend of Shenlong", which is track #2 on disc #5 of the Dragon Ball & Dragon Ball Z Daizenshuu.
K-201 is given the title "Legend Of The DragonBalls" on kenisu's Magicant,[1] the most common source for fan titles of Kikuchi's compositions.
Compositional Analysis
| K-203 Score | |
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1  2  Approximate transcription of the track's main tonal elements. | |
Kikuchi uses something very close to a strict Twelve-tone technique in the composition of M201. Not counting the two introductory bars (a Jaws-like motive resolving on C), only one note repeats before all twelve tones are used. Two voices alternate in a canon at the tritone, the dissonant interval that divides an octave into perfect halves.
- Base voice (dux): D♭-C-D-E♭-B-B♭-A
- Treble voice (comes): G-F♯-G♯-A-F-E-E♭
- Interval pattern: 1 (-½) 2 (+1) 3 (+½) 4 (-2) 5 (-½) 6 (-½) 7
The A in the treble voice is the first note that repeats, following the 10th unique tone (G♯). F is the 11th unique tone, and E is the 12th; then E♭ is another repeat. As standard in a canon, these two voices are identical; one of them is merely transposed up a tritone.
This pattern repeats four and a half times before the ending, which contains all the elements of C7, the dominant 7th chord in the key of F Minor. The most prominent elements are the C and B♭ (1 and 7 in the C7 chord), but the third (E) can be heard in the background instruments, primarily violin and glockenspiel.
The ending of M201 indeed functions as a dominant leading into the title card music, M202, which is a "Mystical Adventure!" reference in F Minor.
Usage
References
- ↑ "The DragonBall BGM Daizenshuu" (11 June 2008). The Suburbs of kenisu's Magicant. Retrieved: 30 June 2019.
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