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The ''Mana'' series, known in Japan as, is a role-playing video game series from Square Enix, created by Koichi Ishii.^[1]

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Android (operating system)

Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Arnie Roth

Arnold "Arnie" Roth (born April 28, 1953) is an American conductor, composer, and record producer, known for his expansive career in the music industry.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.

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Breakbeat

Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B.

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Children of Mana

Children of Mana is a 2006 action role-playing game for the Nintendo DS handheld console.

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Chiptune

Chiptune is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.

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Dawn of Mana

Dawn of Mana is a 2006 action-adventure game for the PlayStation 2.

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DigiCube

DigiCube Co., Ltd. (株式会社デジキューブ; Kabushiki-gaisha Dejikyūbu) was a Japanese company established as a subsidiary of software developer Square on February 6, 1996 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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E3

E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo) was an annual trade event for the video game industry organized and presented by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA).

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Edge (magazine)

Edge is a multi-format video game magazine published by Future plc.

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Electronic music

Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.

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Eminence Symphony Orchestra

The Eminence Symphony Orchestra founded in Sydney, Australia is an independent symphony orchestra which delves into the classical music featured in video games and anime, as well as film scores.

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Extended play

An Extended Play (EP) is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.

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Final Fantasy

is a fantasy anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (formerly Square).

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Final Fantasy Adventure

Final Fantasy Adventure, known in Japan as or simply and later released in Europe as Mystic Quest, is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Game Boy.

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Final Fantasy Legend II

Final Fantasy Legend II, known in Japan as SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu, is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Game Boy.

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Final Fantasy XI

also known as Final Fantasy XI Online, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), originally developed and published by Squaresoft and then published by Square Enix as the eleventh main installment of the Final Fantasy series.

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Final Fantasy XII

is a role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix.

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Flagship

A flagship is a vessel used by the commanding officer of a group of naval ships, characteristically a flag officer entitled by custom to fly a distinguishing flag.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Game Boy

The Game Boy is a handheld game console developed by Nintendo, launched in the Japanese home market on April 21, 1989, followed by North America and Europe later that year.

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Game Boy Advance

The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Gamelan

Gamelan (ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀, ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, ᬕᬫᭂᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Grezzo

is a Japanese video game developer.

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Half-Life 2

Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter (FPS) game developed and published by Valve Corporation.

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Heroes of Mana

Heroes of Mana is a 2007 real-time strategy video game developed by Brownie Brown and Square Enix and published by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS.

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Hiroki Kikuta

is a Japanese composer and game designer.

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IGN

IGN is an American video game and entertainment media website operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis, Inc.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Kenji Ito

, also known by the nickname, is a Japanese video game composer and musician.

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Koichi Ishii

, sometimes credited as Kouichi Ishii, is a video game designer best known for creating the Mana series (known as Seiken Densetsu in Japan). Music of the Mana series and Koichi Ishii are mana (series).

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Kokia (singer)

is a Japanese singer and songwriter performing under the stage name Kokia (styled KOKIA).

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Legend of Mana

Legend of Mana is a 1999 action role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation.

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Leipzig

Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.

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List of Square Enix compilation albums

Square Enix is a Japanese video game developer and publisher formed from the merger on April 1, 2003, of video game developer Square and publisher Enix.

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Live A Live

Live A Live is a 1994 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Famicom.

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Mana (series)

The Mana series, known in Japan as, is a high fantasy action role-playing game series created by Koichi Ishii, with development formerly from Square, and is currently owned by Square Enix.

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Masaharu Iwata

is a Japanese video game composer.

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Masayoshi Soken

is a Japanese video game composer and sound editor who has worked for Square Enix since 2001.

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MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related audio devices for playing, editing, and recording music.

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Mina Kubota

(born on February 5, 1972, in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese composer.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone).

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Multiplayer video game

A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g.

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Music of Indonesia

Indonesia is a country with many different tribes and ethnic groups, and its music is also very diverse, coming in hundreds of different forms and styles.

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Music of the Final Fantasy series

Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise. Music of the Mana series and Music of the Final Fantasy series are Final Fantasy music and music by video game franchise.

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Nintendo DS

The (retroactively referred to as NDS or DS) is a 32-bit foldable handheld game console produced by Nintendo, released globally across 2004 and 2005.

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Nobuo Uematsu

is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix.

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NTT Publishing

NTT Publishing Co., Ltd. (エヌ・ティ・ティ出版株式会社 Enu Ti Ti Shuppan Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese publishing and record label company, which is an affiliate company of NTT.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music.

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Parasite Eve (video game)

Parasite Eve is a 1998 role-playing video game developed and published by Square.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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PlayStation

is a video gaming brand that consists of five home video game consoles, two handhelds, a media center, and a smartphone, as well as an online service and multiple magazines.

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PlayStation 2

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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R/IAmA

r/IAmA is a subreddit for question-and-answer interactive interviews termed "AMA" (short for "Ask Me Anything").

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Role-playing video game

A role-playing video game, a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of recording statistics.

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Romancing SaGa

Romancing SaGa is a 1992 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the Super Famicom.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

was a Japanese composer, pianist, record producer, and actor who pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).

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SaGa

is a series of science fantasy role-playing video games by Square Enix.

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Secret of Mana

Secret of Mana, originally released in Japan as is a 1993 action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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A spin-off or spinoff is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work.

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Square (video game company)

, also known under its international brand name SquareSoft, was a Japanese video game developer and publisher.

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Square Enix

is a Japanese multinational holding company, video game publisher and entertainment conglomerate.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Subplot

In fiction, a subplot or side story is a secondary strand of the plot that is a supporting side story for any story or for the main plot.

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, Super NES or SNES, is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Sword of Mana

Sword of Mana, originally released in Japan as, is a 2003 action role-playing game developed by Square Enix and Brownie Brown and published by Square Enix and Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance.

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Symphonic Fantasies

Symphonic Fantasies: Music from Square Enix was an award-winning symphonic tribute concert originally held in Cologne, Germany on September 12, 2009, at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall featuring video game music from Japanese game developer Square Enix. Music of the Mana series and symphonic Fantasies are Final Fantasy music and mana (series).

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Symphonic Game Music Concerts

The Symphonic Game Music Concerts (shortened to: Game Concerts) are a series of award-winning orchestral video game music concerts first performed in 2003 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, notable for being the longest running and the first of their kind outside Japan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Mana_series

Also known as Secret of Mana Original Soundtrack, Secret of mana ost, Seiken Densetsu 2 OSV, Seiken Densetsu 2 Original Sound Version, Seiken Densetsu 2 Original Soundtrack, Song of Mana.

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See also

Final Fantasy music

Mana (series)

Music by video game franchise

References