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The music for the MMORPG ''Final Fantasy XIV'' was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, a regular contributor to the music of the ''Final Fantasy'' series. Several other composers including Masayoshi Soken and Naoshi Mizuta contributed music for updates to the game. The music for the game's reboot, ''Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn'', was primarily composed by Soken, who was the sound director for both releases of the game. Music from both releases of the game has been released in several albums, though no album contains music from both ''XIV'' and ''A Realm Reborn''. A pair of mini-albums containing a handful of selected tracks from ''XIV'', ''Final Fantasy XIV: Battle Tracks'' and ''Final Fantasy XIV: Field Tracks'', were released by Square Enix in 2010 when ''XIV'' first launched. A soundtrack album titled ''Final Fantasy XIV - Eorzean Frontiers'', containing most of the music that had been released by that point for ''XIV'', was digitally released in 2012. A final soundtrack album for the original release of the game, ''Before Meteor: Final Fantasy XIV Original Soundtrack'', was released in 2013 just before the launch of ''A Realm Reborn'', and contains all of the music that was composed for ''XIV'' throughout its lifetime. The latest soundtrack album, ''Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn Original Soundtrack'', was released in 2014, and contains all of the music for ''A Realm Reborn'' released up to that point. The soundtracks for both releases of the game were well received by critics. Uematsu's mix of orchestral and rock tracks for ''XIV'' were praised, though the delayed release of a full album drew criticism. Soken's work on ''A Realm Reborn'', including both his original tracks as well as themes carried over from ''XIV'' and previous ''Final Fantasy'' games, were heavily praised by reviewers for the game. Music from the initial release of the game has been played in the international ''Distant Worlds'' ''Final Fantasy'' concert series, and books of sheet music for piano arrangements of music from the game have been produced. ==Creation and influence== The massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) ''Final Fantasy XIV'' was released in two versions: the original (live between 2010 and 2012), and its remake (''Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn'', live since 2013). The music for ''XIV'' was composed by Nobuo Uematsu, who was the lead composer for the first ten main ''Final Fantasy'' games and a contributor to the ''Final Fantasy XI'' and ''XII'' soundtracks.〔 Over the two years that ''XIV'' was active, several updates were made to the game, which included additional music composed by Masayoshi Soken, Naoshi Mizuta, Tsuyoshi Sekito and Ryo Yamazaki.〔 ''XIV'' was poorly received, and despite the updates, Square Enix decided to take the game offline for a time, and relaunch it with a new development team under a new name.〔 Soken, the sound director for both releases, composed the soundtrack to ''A Realm Reborn''.〔 Prior to agreeing to create ''XIV''s score, Uematsu had already planned to compose "Kimi ga Iru Kara", the theme song for ''Final Fantasy XIII''. Wanting him to fully focus on ''XIV'', Square Enix asked ''XIII''s main composer Masashi Hamauzu to write the song instead. Thus, ''XIII'' was the first main-series ''Final Fantasy'' game soundtrack to not include Uematsu's work.〔 Despite ''XIV'' being an MMO and thus a new genre for him, Uematsu treated it as any other video game project. Compared to his previous work within the series, Uematsu had considerable creative freedom while composing the soundtrack, because the rest of the production team did not fully envision beforehand how the soundtrack would sound or fit into the game. Uematsu created a mixture of orchestral and rock pieces for the game's battle themes. There was a momentary crisis when he lost most of the data for his completed tracks and needed to hire a data recovery service.〔 He worked as a freelance composer during the project for Square Enix, also composing the music for ''The Last Story'', a game from ''Final Fantasy'' creator Hironobu Sakaguchi.〔 The game's theme song, "Answers", was sung by Susan Calloway. She was chosen by Uematsu, who had worked with her during the first ''Distant Worlds'' concert and was impressed by her singing abilities.〔 For ''A Realm Reborn'', Soken was the primary composer, in addition to reprising his ''XIV'' role as lead sound director. The primary goal given to the music team was to make the music true to the series. Naoki Yoshida, the game's producer and director, told Soken to "give (team ) something straightforward that anyone could identify as ''Final Fantasy'', with an easy-to-understand, expressive orchestral sound".〔 Soken focused primarily on creating the soundtrack rather than his sound director role. He often created new tracks due to requests from staff members. As the game was developed and released in a shorter timeframe than the original release, Soken and the sound team were given less than a year to create both the music and the various sound effects for the game world. According to Soken, it felt like "enough work for two full games in that time".〔 Unlike the freedom given Uematsu for ''XIV'', most of the tracks for ''A Realm Reborn'' had specific guidelines, though Soken was allowed to "do what (liked )" for Titan's battle theme.〔 Soken sang the vocal work for some tracks, such as the battle theme for Leviathan.〔 Several themes and tracks from the original game were carried over both directly and as a part of new tracks in ''A Realm Reborn'', including the original vocal theme.〔 Soken also remixed pieces from earlier ''Final Fantasy'' games for use in special in-game events.〔 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「Music of Final Fantasy XIV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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