To Far Away Times

1 General Information
2 Official Releases
3 Unofficial Releases

General Information[edit]

Composed by: Yasunori Mitsuda
Original Japanese Title: 遥かなる時の彼方へ / Haruka Naru Toki no Kanata e
Time Signature: 4/4

Mitsuda recounted: And "To Far Away Times" is in D♭-Dur, but if you make it the same key as "Presentiment" for easy understanding, the chord progression of the A melody will be Dsus4→Esus4/F#→Dsus4/G. [Yasunori Mitsuda]

The chord following Esus4/F# goes up to Dsus4/G (the bass goes from F# to G), which conveys the idea that time is moving forward (starting to move forward). [Yasunori Mitsuda]

In this way, "To Far Away Times" expresses the movement towards the future using the same chord progression and theme, but there is another important element hidden in "To Far Away Times". [Yasunori Mitsuda]

The tempo is 60 BPM (one beat per second), twice that (for the two characters, Chrono and Marle), making it 120 BPM. In other words, the game ends, and we return to the concept of time we use, signaling the end of the adventure. [Yasunori Mitsuda]

I actually composed "Presentiment" and "To Far Away Times" in the same key, but I wanted to express a little more sadness, so I changed the key from D-Dur to D♭-Dur. I think this gave it an even more memorable sound. [Yasunori Mitsuda]

"To Far Away Times" is filled with feelings for a close friend who died when he was a high school student. Some of the motifs were written when he was a high school student, and I felt that there were some overlaps with Chrono, so I decided to use some of them. [Yasunori Mitsuda]

[About "To Far Away Times"]"At first it was just the music box, but when we realized the performance was going to be long, we decided to add strings from the music box and create another development."

"I still can't get through this song. It brings tears to my eyes. I wrote this song with this thought in mind: to always be positive even when things are tough." "The song I had the most trouble with was the ending, "To Far Away Times." But I think we were able to end it in the best possible way."

Official Releases[edit]

Unofficial Releases[edit]

Restorations[edit]

Restorations attempt to take compressed, low-quality sampled music (as found on video games, such as Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross) and "restore" them by tracking down the original samples and recreating the songs, as they would've sounded like to the composers before being subject to hardware limitations.