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''Final Fantasy'' is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and owned by Square Enix that includes video games, motion pictures, and other merchandise. The original Final Fantasy video game, published in 1987, is a role-playing video game developed by Square, spawning a video game series that became the central focus of the franchise.〔〔 The primary composer of music for the main series was Nobuo Uematsu, who single-handedly composed the soundtracks for the first nine games, as well as directing the production of many of the soundtrack albums. Music for the spin-off series and main series games beginning with ''Final Fantasy X'' was created by a variety of composers including Masashi Hamauzu, Naoshi Mizuta, Hitoshi Sakimoto, and Kumi Tanioka, as well as many others. Music from the franchise has been performed numerous times in concert tours and other live performances such as the ''Orchestral Game Music Concerts'', ''Symphonic Game Music Concerts'', and the ''Play! A Video Game Symphony'' and the ''Video Games Live'' concert tours, as well as forming the basis of specific ''Final Fantasy'' concerts and concert series. The first such concert was the ''20020220 Music from Final Fantasy'' concert on February 20, 2002, which sparked a six-concert tour in Japan entitled ''Tour de Japon: Music from Final Fantasy'' beginning in March 2004. A North American concert series titled ''Dear Friends -Music From Final Fantasy-'' followed from 2004–2005, and after its conclusion was followed with the ''More Friends: Music from Final Fantasy'' concert on May 16, 2005. ''Voices - Music from Final Fantasy'' was a concert held in Yokohama, Japan on February 18, 2006 focusing on vocal pieces from the series. The longest running ''Final Fantasy'' concert series so far is the ''Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy'' concert tour, which began in 2007 and continues to date around the world. The latest officially licensed concert is ''Final Symphony'', featuring music from ''Final Fantasy VI'', ''VII'' and ''X''. All of these concerts have played only music from the main ''Final Fantasy'' series, and do not include music from the multiple spin-off series with the exception of ''Final Fantasy VII Advent Children'', the 2005 computer animated film sequel to ''Final Fantasy VII''. == 20020220 - Music from Final Fantasy == ''20020220 - Music from Final Fantasy'' was the first official concert devoted to music from across the ''Final Fantasy'' series. A previous concert, ''Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite'', had been performed on May 20, 1989 for a limited audience to create an orchestral version of the soundtracks of ''Final Fantasy I'' and ''II'', which have only been released together.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.squareenixmusic.com/concerts/ffsuite.shtml )〕 The music of ''20020220'' was arranged for orchestra from the original songs composed by Nobuo Uematsu primarily by Uematsu himself and Shiro Hamaguchi, with "To Zanarkand" and "Yuna's Decision" arranged by Masashi Hamauzu, and was performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra on February 20, 2002 at the Tokyo International Forum. The orchestra was conducted by Taizou Takemoto, and the concert was hosted by Masakazu Morita and Mayuko Aoki, the Japanese voice actors for Tidus and Yuna from ''Final Fantasy X''.〔 The orchestra played 17 songs over a period of almost two hours. The setlist ranged covered songs from the very first ''Final Fantasy'' game through ''Final Fantasy X'', the latest game to have been released. Their rendition of "Suteki da Ne" from ''Final Fantasy X'' was accompanied by Japanese folk singer Ritsuki Nakano, known as "RIKKI", who sang the track in the original game. Similarly, "Melodies of Life" from ''Final Fantasy IX'' was performed by Emiko Shiratori, the original performer for the song in that game's soundtrack. "At Zanarkand" and "Yuna's Decision", both from ''Final Fantasy X'', were solo piano pieces performed by Aki Kuroda, while "Liberi Fatali" and "One-Winged Angel" saw the orchestra combined with a small chorus. Kiyotsugu Amano performed guitar accompaniment for "Dear Friends" (''Final Fantasy V'') and "Vamo' Alla Flamenco" (''Final Fantasy IX'').〔 An album based on a live recording of the concert was released on May 9, 2002 by DigiCube, and was subsequently re-released on July 22, 2004 by Square Enix. The album spans 25 tracks over two discs and covers a duration of 1:47:27, and includes the initial tuning of the orchestra, the speeches given by the MC, and the songs themselves.〔 The album was well received by critics and was termed an "amazing soundtrack" and "probably the best Final Fantasy arranged album ever made" by Robert Bogdanowicz of RPGFan.〔 Liz Maas of RPGFan agreed; although she found there to be a lack of actual innovation overall, she felt the music was "wonderful" and the album as a whole "rather enjoyable".〔 Patrick Dell of Soundtrack Central felt that the album was "wonderful" and "an impressive display", although he greatly disliked the performance of the choir.〔 Dave of Square Enix Music Online was not as impressed by the album, saying that many of the performances were "lacking cohesion and direction", although he felt that overall it was "satisfactory" and "worth repeated listens".〔 Sophia of Square Enix Music Online, on the other hand, felt that it was a "fantastic album" and a "must have".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Final Fantasy concerts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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