Final Fantasy 7-9 Piano Opera: Free Sheet Music
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Introduction
Welcome to my free sheet music page for Final Fantasy 7-9 Piano Opera. I have been a fan of the Final Fantasy series since I was a little kid, and I have always wanted to learn how to play the music from the games on piano. I was never able to find any good sheet music for the songs, so I decided to create my own.
These are all of the songs from the Final Fantasy 7-9 Piano Opera album, arranged for solo piano. I tried to stay true to the original arrangements as much as possible, while still making them accessible for intermediate-level pianists. I hope you enjoy these arrangements!
About the Music
Origins
The Piano Opera series features well-known music from the Final Fantasy video game series arranged for solo piano. The first volume, released in 2006, included music from Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX. A second volume, including music from Final Fantasy X, was released in 2010.
The arrangements are by Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of the original songs, and are performed by pianist REVO of the rock band Sound Horizon.
Themes and Melodies
Piano Opera is a set of three piano albums, each one based on a game in the popular Final Fantasy video game series. The albums were released in 2004, 2006, and 2008 respectively.
Each album features six tracks arranged for solo piano, complete with lyrics and chord symbols. The arrangements are moderately challenging and would be suitable for intermediate-level pianists.
Themes and Melodies
The first album in the series, Final Fantasy VII Piano Opera, includes some of the most iconic themes from the game, including “Aerith’s Theme,” “Cosmo Canyon,” “One-Winged Angel,” and “Selling Heart.” The second album, Final Fantasy VIII Piano Opera, contains well-loved tracks like “Eyes on Me,” “liberi fatali,” and “Fisherman’s Horizon.” Lastly, the third album in the series, Final Fantasy IX Piano Opera, has beautiful renditions of songs like “Vamo’ alla Flamenco,” “Melodies of Life,” and “Rose of May.”
About the Composer
Nobuo Uematsu is a Japanese video game composer, best known for his work on the Final Fantasy series. He has also worked on several other well-known video games, including Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey.
Nobuo Uematsu
Nobuo Uematsu was born on March 21, 1959, in Kouchi, Japan. He graduated from the Kanagawa Music Academy in 1981, and debuted as a composer the following year with the album The NullLullabye.
After working as a freelance composer for several years, he joined Square (now Square Enix) in 1986, and composed music for many of their most popular titles, including Final Fantasy VII, VIII and IX. He has also composed music for various other games and films, including Blue Dragon and The Last Story.
Uematsu left Square Enix in 2004 to form his own company, Smile Please Co., Ltd., but continued to work on music for the company’s games as a freelancer. He has since composed music for such titles as Final Fantasy XIV and Blue Dragon: Trial Version.
In 2011, Uematsu was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
The Piano Opera
Download and print Final Fantasy 7-9 piano opera sheet music, including “Cloud Smiles” and “Aerith’s Theme.” The Piano Opera is a series of piano arrangements of songs from the popular video game series, Final Fantasy. The arrangements were created by Japanese composer and pianist, Shiro Hamaguchi, and were originally released in Japan in three volumes.
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII is a role-playing video game developed by Square for the PlayStation console. Released in 1997, it is the seventh main installment in the Final Fantasy series. The game’s story follows Cloud Strife, a mercenary who joins an eco-terrorist organization to stop a world-controlling megacorporation from using the planet’s life essence as an energy source. Cloud and his allies rescue Aerith Gainsborough, a flower merchant and the last of her kind. They face Sephiroth, one of Cloud’s former allies who turned into a villain after being manipulatively tricked by Shinra.
The game is considered to be one of the most influential titles of the role-playing genre, particularly for its story elements and graphics. It was commercially and critically successful, selling over 11 million copies worldwide, making it the second best-selling game in the Final Fantasy series and one of the bestselling video games of all time. A high-definition remaster for PlayStation 4 was released in 2015 sense both positive reviews and sales success.
Final Fantasy VIII
“Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec” is a song included in the “Piano Opera: Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX” album. It was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, arranged by Shiro Hamaguchi and performed by Alexander O. Smith and Literature Club. The song consists of three tracks, the first being “Fithos Lusec”, the second being “Wecos Vinosec” and the third being “Lifestream”.
Final Fantasy IX
The Piano Opera – Final Fantasy 7-9 Piano Opera (free sheet music) is a collection of piano pieces from Final Fantasy IX, arranged and performed by nobuo uematsu. The tracks are:
1. “A Place I’ll Return to Someday”
2. “The Battle”
3. “The City That Never Sleeps”
4. “The Girl Who Left Home”
5. “Iifa Tree”
6. “Kuja’s Theme”
7. “Lindblum”
8. “Memories of That Summer Day”
9. “Not Alone Anymore”
10. “Premonition”
Free Sheet Music
“Aerith’s Theme”
“Aerith’s Theme” is a musical piece composed by Nobuo Uematsu and originally performed by Mitsuto Suzuki. It is the eighth track of the first disc of the Final Fantasy VII: Original Soundtrack album, and appears in the game as an instrumental leitmotif associated with the character Aerith Gainsborough.
The piano arrangement of “Aerith’s Theme” included in the Final Fantasy VII: Piano Collection album was arranged by Shirou Satou and performed by Stanislav Bunin. The track is the first of three on the album featuring music from Final Fantasy VII, and like all tracks on the album, it was arranged and performed on a Yamaha C7 grand piano.
“Eyes on Me”
“Eyes on Me” is the theme song from Final Fantasy VIII, composed by Nobuo Uematsu and performed by Chinese singer Faye Wong. It was released in Japan on February 10, 1999, as a single by Epic Records Japan. “Eyes on Me” peaked at number two on the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart and has sold over 700,000 copies in the country. The song was included on Wong’s greatest hits albums, Decade (1998) in Hong Kong and Faye Wong (2000) in China.
The lyrics were written by Kinoko Nasu and translated into Chinese by Lin Xi. The gameplay of Final Fantasy VIII revolves around the relationships of its main cast, including a love triangle between protagonists Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly, and rival Seifer Almasy. The game’s producer, Hironobu Sakaguchi, asked Uematsu to write a love song for the game that could capture these emotions. Uematsu was watching a documentary about poverty in Africa when he began to get ideas for the song. He envisioned a woman singing at a nightclub to lonely customers who had come there to forget their troubles.
“Eyes on Me” received positive reviews from music critics. It won Best Song at the 11th Annual Japan Gold Disc Awards in 1999 and Best Pop Song at the 13th Annual Yokohama Bay Bridge Music Festival Awards in 2000. The song has been covered by various artists and has appeared in several media outside of the Final Fantasy series. In 2006, it was voted by Japanese music magazine CDJournal as one of their 150 all-time favorite songs from Asia.
“Melodies of Life”
“Melodies of Life” is a song composed by Nobuo Uematsu and sung by Emiko Shiratori, originally appearing in the game Final Fantasy IX. The lyrics for the English version were written by Alexander O. Smith. It was released as a single on March 14, 2000, in Japan by DigiCube, and on October 10, 2000, in North America by Square Enix.
The song has been included in several of Uematsu’s works outside of the Final Fantasy series, such as his piano opera “Music from Final Fantasy VII-IX” and “Voices of the Lifestream – A Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu.” It has also been performed by many orchestras and choirs worldwide.
