E-flat, F, G. The three notes around which Dance of Bells hovers. The three notes around which a lot of Touhou songs hover, if you transpose them into the right key.

See what I mean about homage? Dance of Bells was about the ZUNnest song I could muster.

More like Dance of Triangles, am I right?

This is something that’s been in my head for a while, but finding the right instruments to use was a pain unholy, let me tell you. I think I’m pretty satisfied with the final lineup, though: piano as a base, glockenspiel for the bell-like dance-y sound, two ocarinas for Rune, bass koto for added Japan ( + completing the DA3 instrumentalist squad), the obligatory triangle (”ding!”), and...a mystery instrument, just because I can.

This entire song is a homage to a certain series. Can you guess which one it is? Can you guess before you start even listening? If not, I’ll post something later today that should make it obvious.

That was not as soon as I was hoping for, but...

Here’s the sheet music to When Headmaster Yasuda Isn’t Home! Super sorry for the wait.

Anyway: anon, sorry to make you wait on my blog to post things, but when you see this... If you have anything that you’d like me to adjust or clarify or fix in the sheet music, tell me and I’ll try my best to adjust/clarify/fix it. I can’t make any promises (because I’m not...good with Sibelius...) but I want this thing to be as useful as I can make it. (Ditto for D-E-F-A-C-E-D.)

And with that, I retire to...

...But. Nevertheless! This link should take you to a PDF file for, wait for it, sheet music. For "A Duet, D-E-F-A-C-E-D". Disclaimer that the pizzicato bass part near the end should be taken kind of loosely, in that I wasn't entirely sure how to write down a completely improvised part of the song. So, like, do whatever with it. Improvise your own thing, if you want. 

...

First of all, wow, I’m really flattered that you want to learn my songs! Second of all I could definitely write up some sheet music, if you give me a little time to do so!

Question, though: what instrument are you looking to play these pieces on? I only have experience with reading/writing sheet music for piano, personally, but other instruments probably shouldn’t be a problem. I can’t 100% guarantee that every part in both songs is realistically playable by the instruments playing them, though; if you try to play the double bass part in A Duet D-E-F-A-C-E-D and find that you can’t move your bow fast enough to jump between the appropriate strings, that’s totally on me, I wasn’t looking at a bass when I wrote it… Also, When Headmaster Yasuda Isn’t Home could be arranged for the piano, but I think a few parts would have to be lost unless you were willing to get an additional person to lend some hands. (Assuming the other person was also willing. Which they might not be, because their part would likely be really boring.) Unless you want me to write literally the sheet music necessary for one drum set, one koto, one recorder, one ocarina, one piano, and one double bass, I’d have to think a little about how to arrange it.

Arrangement two! 

Or, actually, this is the original. "Lullaby" started as a song for Kahori, about Kahori, so I figured it would be fitting if I finally released the original piano version of it today, on Kahori's birthday. (I kept it to myself for a while because I wanted to add a koto part, and strings and percussion and etc, and it didn't...quite...work out.)

Thus, two arrangements of one lullaby! One in 3/4 so that I could write a koto in, one in 4/4 for Kahori. 

Hey, remember that time I had that character in DA3 who did some things…developed a deep distrust of the color magenta…died...etc, etc? Nanoka Era?

…I want to make sure we’re all on the same page here.

(I forgot my password to shslkoto, RIP…)

I made a small thing! For her birthday!

This is actually an arrange of another thing I had made…a long time ago. Sometime back in May, I think? I’m going to try finding it and polishing it up, but I’m not going to post it until later. Soon. For another birthday.

Doubt endgame approaches, too, slowly.

Until then...

...The dash is quiet.

I wonder what I should do now? Congratulate everyone for finding the masterminds, maybe...sure. Good job, everyone! Except you, Keita. You screwed everything over and betrayed Hirashi Abe's trust. I can't forgive that.

I guess the rest of it I can leave for endgame time, yeah? Linking to my DA5 hopeful, or...something. Later, when I'm ready to actually play the sorry schmuck.

In the meantime I'm going to take advantage of the radio silence to talk about my favorite thing. The Doubt ensemble. 

...I mean, the SHSL musicians of Doubt Academy. If all of them happened to be in the same room at the same time. A room that, as of DA4, would include: 

Two strings players (Sasaki Yuzuki, Nanoka Era);

Two woodwinds players (Yoshiki Shouda, Rune Andersen);

and two percussion players (Hirashi Abe, Hitoshi Nakamura).

Yeah? Also: two experts in music technology (Ume Mori, Kikuyo Shirabe) and two vocalists (Suleiman Ahmed and Kyo Otonomiya, who I'm counting as a vocalist mostly because I don't know how to separate his skill with pure instrumental stuff from his skill as a musician in general). But even in an instrumentalists-only, live ensemble, the Doubtverse has a pretty neat musical aesthetic, yeah?

I always thought that was really neat, at least. I'm looking forward to see what kind of characters join the ensemble in DA5, actually.

…There’s a second part to this train of thought. I’ll post it in a minute. All I want to say in advance is that it’s exactly what it looks like it is, and

I

Actually, no.

[Soundcloud link]

...

If you guessed a single person you're wrong! This is a song for/about Saori and Imogen Yahola.

Or...no...

It's really a song for this thread, see? More or less. So, you know, the song's really about...well, there's no rule against songs for names that aren't anymore, is there?

The theme I was working with here was "a main melody that's caged within the confines of a single octave" - from A# to the next A# up here - "until the point at which it breaks free". Which is basically what I ended up doing. The main melody's split between two different variations requiring two different types of harmonic accompaniment, but it's still two different types of cage. Two separate situations that are more alike than different. That's where I'm going here.

And...I'm not really sure what I'm trying to say, so I'll leave it there, yeah? I'm going to stick around to see who's dead and then it's back to work with me. Finishing and publishing songs for solo piano is one thing, but when is this amateur going to learn how to write acceptable percussion parts...who knows...

...I have my reasons, I swear.

(I've got it back! My music studio! My workspace! Now I'm trying to work through all the pent-up recording energy, and my backlog. There are a lot of things I'm not ready to publish yet, but I do have one thing that I finished writing...uh, this month. I started it a few days before Kaoru Kitayama died, but it was hibernating. Hibernating, yeah.)

Second of all: with that in mind, 

I come here to post one thing, one thing, and then retreat to my lair, 

and

Mayumi Hanezuka.

The first Dangan Ronpa OC I ever knew existed. The reason I'm not currently still involved in canons roleplaying. The reason I felt like maybe I, too, should make a character one day, once I was good enough at writing. The reason I got to the point of learning about Doubt Academy at all. 

Mayumi Hanezuka is dead. 

What is this. This bullshit. 

I want to make something clear.

Over this past weekend, I have caught up to the dash. To a lot of things. Five days or so worth of things.

Sasaki is still alive. Cerys is still alive. Yoshihiro is back. No one died in the trials. Two people were injured, and no deaths! And all my classes got cancelled today so everyone could go climb a giant hill. (And, on an unrelated note, Hoshiko and Valentina talking to each other is adorable. That’s undeniable.)

It’s a good day to be me.

But it’s been nearly a week, and I’m still upset Hirashi’s dead.