Hikari (arr. Nishant Amatya) by Hikaru Utada Sheet Music for Concert Band at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Hikaru Utada

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Hikaru Utada

Arranger Nishant Amatya

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 76

Arrangement Concert Band

Publisher Nishant Amatya

Level 5

Product ID 1138403

Genre Contemporary Video Game

Performance Group Concert Band

Product Description

One of the most well-known singer-songwriters in Japan, Hikaru Utada wrote Hikari as part of a collaboration with Square Enix in the early 2000s in creating and promoting the video game Kingdom Hearts. Since then, this piece has become a video game classic, and representative of the entire Kingdom Hearts franchise. Kingdom Hearts series composer, Yoko Shimomura, took Utada's original pop-folk tune and completely revamped it for an orchestra. This arrangement is largely based on Shimomura's orchestral version, and attempts to faithfully score it for a wind ensemble and capture the power of the original. Intended for advanced ensembles, some parts have been doubled and the harp made optional as to allow for some flexibility with instrumentation.

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