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A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle. Many symphonies are tonal works in four movements with the first in sonata form, which is often described by music theorists as the structure of a "classical" symphony, although many symphonies by the acknowledged classical masters of the form, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven do not conform to this model.
Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫, Uematsu Nobuo?) (born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series. He is considered as one of the most famous and respected composers in the video game community. Uematsu, a self-taught musician, began playing the piano at the age of eleven or twelve, with Elton John as his biggest influence.
Uematsu joined Square (later Square Enix) in 1986, where he met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. They have worked together on many video game titles, most notably the games in the Final Fantasy series. After nearly 20 years in the company, he left Square Enix in 2004 to found his own company called Smile Please, and the music production company Dog Ear Records. He has since composed music as a freelancer for video games primarily developed by Square Enix and Sakaguchi's development studio Mistwalker.
Soundtracks and arranged albums of Uematsu's game scores have been released. Pieces from his video game works have been performed in Final Fantasy concerts. He has worked with Grammy Award-winning conductor Arnie Roth on several of these concerts. From 2002 to 2010, he was in a rock band with colleagues Kenichiro Fukui and Tsuyoshi Sekito called The Black Mages, in which he played Electronic organ and other keyboards. The band played arranged rock versions of Uematsu's Final Fantasy compositions. He has since performed with the band Earthbound Papas.
Trade over land or by sea
We got too much money
But still there are people who need
Researching technology
Seemingly improving our ways
And our economy
I'll fly my rockship to a future world
People come, people come
Join my revolution for a brand new birth
Peace will come, peace will come
My vision eyes
They have cried me an ocean
Just the moon and I
Pale faces in the night
And I guess we've both seen some trouble
Treasures of gold left us blinded
Religion wars in the name of greed... Ohh
All around there is chaos and madness
So hard to focus with these
Diagnozes in my head
I'll fly my rockship to a future world
People come, the dream is on
Join my revolution for a brand new birth
People will come, peace will come
My vision eyes
They have cried me an ocean
Just the moon and I
Pale faces in the night
And I've still got some trouble... Oh yeahhh
I'll fly my rockship to a future world
People come, the dream is on
Join my revolution for a brand new birth
Peace will come, peace will come
We bring such a heavy load so full of fire
With our music we rise to be higher
I'm a dancer on the world arena
And I give you the message of love
My vision eyes
They've cried me an ocean... Oh yeahhh
Just the moon and I
Pale faces in the night
And I guess we still got some trouble