Beyond the Deep Blue Sea from FFV - Duet

This is my arrangement of Beyond the Deep Blue Sea from Final Fantasy V. I had a lot of internal images and ideas as I was arranging this one, related to the ocean. The original is hypnotic but rather short, so I knew I was going to be doing a lot of composing to flesh the piece out.

The beginning sections are very close to the original, to which I then added a third section, with a singing/song quality to it. As the sailor "sings," the ocean joins in, harmonizing along. It all gets very melodramatic, so I decided to slow things down and wrote a gentle, falling modulating section to move to a warmer key. The 4th section is a re-telling of the beginning, but in a warmer, gentler, and cozier way. The piece is meant to tell a story, as the sailor thinks back to his life on the sea.

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