Nausicaa Requiem - Piano

This is from Nausicaa, one of Miyazaki's first huge hits in the anime film industry under Studio Ghibli. It was composed by Hisaishi Joe, who is known to do most of Studio Ghibli's music work.

I listen and play by ear, but this time, I didn't use a reference to learn it, so it was all in my head (since I am very well-versed with this song). I am surprised how it came out... and I like it...
I hope you do, too...!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• piano
• Nausicaa
• Miyazaki
• Hayao
• Requiem
• Studio
• Ghibli
• Joe
• Hisaishi

[Gassia]

Did Joe Hisaishi really composed it? I'm getting curious because it's a music my childhood was made of and to me few people knew this music, but I'm starting to hear it a lot around me... So I'm wondering, isn't the melody from a most famous compositor? (i'll be damn sad if it is, but i wanna know the truth T_T)

[Junosensei]

Joe Hisaishi did indeed compose the song... and I'd say he's pretty famous. More so in Japan than internationally, but he does music for international projects, too, so I'd say he's well known. His work for Ghibli is his most well known work, which doesn't go unrewarded.

In Japan, the tune (and many other works of his, usually Ghibli-based) is commonly used as jingles for train stations and even schools and other public buildings, so there's probably not one person who doesn't know it. ^^

[RawrManu]

This is so beautiful. Excellent job. :)

[Junosensei]

Thanks~<3

[kaepskeeg]

Wonderful performance. How long have you been playing?

[Junosensei]

Well, I can't read sheet music well, but I have been playing from ear since forever ago. I have a home video where my uncle played a melody on a keyboard and I copied him without making any mistakes. >.> I don't even know how I did it. I was 2 or 3 at the time.

[TheBertonex19]

la la la la..... thats what im singing at 0:54

[neoflowers1234]

beautiful

[SilentAlchemist13]

:O i loved it!!

[KevtheRobot]

@Gassia The opening bit sounds a lot like an old Sarabande by Handel.

[KyuuketsukiDaisuki]

My favourite piece of music in any Ghibli film. ;3; So perfect!

[Check4Coldragon]

i nearly had tears in my eyes when I watched ;)

[Laroling]

@Gassia well, actually he 'stole' the melody in the beginning part quite frankly from the much much much older Sarabande by Georg Friedrich Handel (1689-1759), also used in Stanley Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon'.

[sainenko]

beautiful, just beautiful . best cover of this tune i have heard

[bananarama666]

@Gassia Joe hisaishi composed it. I think what you hear often is Handel's Sarabande (look it up on youtube) which has a very similar opening. Maybe Joe borrowed the opening chords, but the rest is his.

[uwannaparty1]

to play this with out able to read music, is brilliant, i can read music but i cant play two hand on piano, lol :P but this is magnificant and you playing it is too, i luv this song, i listen to it loads and i have the dvd!! <3 lol :D