The Hand That Gives The Rose (Ravana's Theme)
Masayoshi Soken
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Browse piano sheets by Masayoshi Soken on Zen Virtual Piano. Masayoshi Soken has said, “I work very hard as a member of THE PRIMALS, but my real job is managing a team of game developers.” He has also said that he has been immersed in music since childhood, in part because his father used to be a professional trumpet player and his mother taught piano and electronic organ, and that he was playing the piano ever since he could remember. A job title that outranks his stage persona puts managing before performing in his own telling. A musician who calls managing developers his real job puts the band and the score on the other side of the same working week. During college he majored in chemistry and devoted himself to research, but when he had to decide on a career he did not have the desire to do chemistry for the rest of his life, and before he knew it he was hired as a sound editor for arcade games at a game company. He continued to hone his skills in video game sound and then changed jobs to the company formerly known as Square, where he created video game sound. A chemistry major devoted to research and a job as a sound editor are far apart, which makes the change of direction in his story a large one. VGMOnline noted that he had worked only on small to mid-sized titles until Final Fantasy XIV, and that with Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn he was thrust into the spotlight with his first large-scale project. He has said that most of the time the quest and story cutscenes are not ready when he starts composing, though he is given the overall synopsis and progression of the story at the beginning of development. Composing from a synopsis rather than finished scenes asks for music that can wait for its pictures. Each expansion has its own setting, and for Heavensward, which featured many cathedral-like buildings, he incorporated pipe organ and harpsichord. Writing before the pictures exist, and answering a setting’s cathedrals with a pipe organ, puts the composer’s instinct ahead of the cutscene. He has said that when the team was planning the first FFXIV Fan Festivals in 2014, they asked him to put on a musical performance to wrap up each major event, and that an orchestral performance crossed his mind but there was not enough budget. The Heavensward soundtrack credits “The Hand that Gives the Rose,” Ravana’s theme, to Masayoshi Soken as composer and arranger, and “Painted Skies,” the Dravanian Forelands night theme, to Soken as composer and Yukiko Takada as arranger. A festival request for a musical finale and a budget too small for an orchestra show the limits he was working within.
Browse piano sheets by Masayoshi Soken on Zen Virtual Piano.
Masayoshi Soken has said, “I work very hard as a member of THE PRIMALS, but my real job is managing a team of game developers.” He has also said that he has been immersed in music since childhood, in part because his father used to be a professional trumpet player and his mother taught piano and electronic organ, and that he was playing the piano ever since he could remember. A job title that outranks his stage persona puts managing before performing in his own telling. A musician who calls managing developers his real job puts the band and the score on the other side of the same working week.
During college he majored in chemistry and devoted himself to research, but when he had to decide on a career he did not have the desire to do chemistry for the rest of his life, and before he knew it he was hired as a sound editor for arcade games at a game company. He continued to hone his skills in video game sound and then changed jobs to the company formerly known as Square, where he created video game sound. A chemistry major devoted to research and a job as a sound editor are far apart, which makes the change of direction in his story a large one.
VGMOnline noted that he had worked only on small to mid-sized titles until Final Fantasy XIV, and that with Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn he was thrust into the spotlight with his first large-scale project. He has said that most of the time the quest and story cutscenes are not ready when he starts composing, though he is given the overall synopsis and progression of the story at the beginning of development. Composing from a synopsis rather than finished scenes asks for music that can wait for its pictures. Each expansion has its own setting, and for Heavensward, which featured many cathedral-like buildings, he incorporated pipe organ and harpsichord. Writing before the pictures exist, and answering a setting’s cathedrals with a pipe organ, puts the composer’s instinct ahead of the cutscene.
He has said that when the team was planning the first FFXIV Fan Festivals in 2014, they asked him to put on a musical performance to wrap up each major event, and that an orchestral performance crossed his mind but there was not enough budget. The Heavensward soundtrack credits “The Hand that Gives the Rose,” Ravana’s theme, to Masayoshi Soken as composer and arranger, and “Painted Skies,” the Dravanian Forelands night theme, to Soken as composer and Yukiko Takada as arranger. A festival request for a musical finale and a budget too small for an orchestra show the limits he was working within.
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Composing the music of Final Fantasy XIV, beginning with A Realm Reborn, his first large-scale project. He is also a member of the band THE PRIMALS, and his other credits include the Nanashi no Game, Front Mission and Mana series.
He majored in chemistry in college, but did not want to do chemistry for the rest of his life and was hired as a sound editor for arcade games before moving to Square.
Masayoshi Soken composed and arranged “The Hand that Gives the Rose,” Ravana’s theme in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward.