Análisis Técnico sobre la Adaptación para Marimba de Dwelling of Doom de Matsubara, Terashima y Murata.

Abstract

This research takes as its central axis the technical analysis of the marimba adaptation of Dwelling of Doom composed by Kenichi Matsubara, Satoe Terashima and Kouji Murata, a song which has not previously been performed on marimba. This is how the idea and enthusiasm of making an adaptation of Dwelling of Doom in an unconventional format arose. Additionally, arduous research was carried out on this work to have a broader understanding and get to know interpretations on other instruments to be taken as guide. The general objective of this preliminary project is the technical analysis of the Dwelling of Doom theme, starting with carrying out a melodic and harmonic analysis in order to better understand the work, to later carry out a technical analysis and select the exercises of the ideal methods for a proper interpretation. This is how this document initially addresses a brief historical context about music in video games over time, then talks a little about the composers of the Dwelling of Doom theme, and finally reaches an analysis. Through this process, a somewhat limited amount of information is collected due to the language gap, but despite this, highly relevant data is obtained that allows this research to be carried out. The expected results are projected towards the social appropriation of knowledge with the realization of artistic and academic events, it also has a projection of knowledge with the production of audiovisual and digital texts.