The cellos play the same notes on repeat from start to end.

A good example of an ostinato is Pachelbel’s canon.

The notes and rhythms stay exactly the same and are repeated over and over without stop. Step 1: Create an ostinatoĪn ostinato is a short unit of music that plays on repeat throughout a piece.

That is, the piece starts with one big melodic theme and then ends with a second big melody theme.īelow, I will describe in depth how to structure and develop a “prototypical” Undertale track piece.

Binary Form. The pieces overall consist of a Binary AABB form.

Melodic structural units are played twice in a row before introducing something new. That is, the first line of the melody and the second line of the melody start similarly and in a way “mirror” each other. The melody consists of eight bar periods with a parallel question and answer phrase. The ostinato is introduced first, then the midground, then the melody. If there is not an ostinato, there is still a background line that maintains repeated rhythmic and pitch movement patterns. An astonishing number of Undertale’s OST songs contain most/all of the following elements: The majority of tracks are written the same way. It also, interestingly enough, is composed with a very small pallet of compositional techniques. The Undertale soundtrack is enormously fun, expressive, and symbolically meaningful. When applicable, the subset of a group of leitmotifs that a song is a part of is written after the parent group in parentheses.Deconstructing Undertale’s Music Composition Structure Note: Leitmotifs categorized as 'minor' on the leitmotifs page are italicized.

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