One listen. Thought I could write about the song well enough and didn’t. Just kind of summarised and didn’t do much digging in. It’s a fairly simple piece with a lot to grab onto and I didn’t grab onto it.

Yasunori Mitsuda’s (光田 康典) “Schala’s Theme” (サラのテーマ”) is from Chrono Trigger‘s soundtrack, Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version.

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Percussion ringing and moving in a silence, moving back and forth. Not quite swaying. Strings lower through the percussion, and when they reach a base, another set of light percussion comes in. Soon those strings move again, along with something that could be woodwind; could be something else.

There’s a drama here that repeats; a weight of innocence, or purity, or kindness, or all. And it leads into a silence of just percussion before coming back with the flicker of a harp.There is urgency, and there is weight. The weight of decision, of pushing against, of trying to push on. And once more it’s just percussion before everything fades and the song ends.