Frog's Theme

General Information

Areas Played: Cathedral, Guardia Castle, Guardia Forest, Hero's Grave, Magic Cave
Composed by: Yasunori Mitsuda
Original Japanese Title: カエル�テーマ Kaeru no Tēma [Kaeru's Theme]
Time Signature: 4/4 (triplets imply 12/8)

The full Frog's Theme only appears on the Official CD releases below; it is not in Chrono Trigger. Yasunori Mitsuda was asked about the song's cut at Procyon-Studio; the question and response:

(This is slightly paraphrased because the Japanese is a little more redundant than is grammatically acceptable in English.)

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About the not-yet-recorded Chrono Trigger song "Singing Mountain", it's really too bad it didn't make it into the game. Was the song for an event at Death Mountain after Crono dies? Was it planned to insert the song when going to the mountain to revive Crono? Why was it rejected? It's a very good song (I'd really love to hear it with live instruments and vocals). Also, the prelude to Frog's Theme wasn't included, but it was on the CD. Why was it in the CD, but not in the game?

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(From Mitsuda himself) There was a dungeon where that song was used, but because the dungeon didn't contain much and there were no problems or anything that advanced the game, it was cut. So inevitably the song was cut with it (*sniffle*). About Frog's Theme, because the prelude was meant to rise up during an event, the song starts out partway through, but since we took great pains with the CD it started from the prelude there.

Thanks to JLukas for finding this and Arc Impulse for translating it.

Official Releases

• Chrono Trigger Official Soundtrack: Music from Final Fantasy Chronicles
• Chrono Trigger Original Soundtrack (Playstation)
• Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version

Unofficial Releases

.spc Rips

• Chrono Trigger (Tracks 1-64) at Zophar.net
• Chrono Trigger (Tracks 1-79) at SNESMusic.org

Albums

• 1st GIG #Awake
• Levo Lution XII: Prelude
• Seiken Densetsu & Chrono Trigger Best Collection (Square Best Series Vol.3)
• Time & Space
• White Rabbit Record - OuT-LaW

Remixes

Chrono Compendium

• 'Glenn's Awakening' by ResidentEvilFreak

OCReMix

• '(and FF 9) KnightsComeMarchingHome' by Ailsean
  
• 'A Frog, A Sword, and a Spoony Bard' by Daknit, Bard of Tarot
  
• 'Enter the Frog' by JigginJonT
  
• 'Sacratus Bellator' by GrayLightning
• 'What Hath Thou Done with This' by Vicks Cornatto
  

VGMix

Must-Haves

• 'The Knights Come Marching Home Again' by Ailsean
  

Good Stuff

• 'Enter the Frog' by JigginJonT
  

Other

MintJam

• 'Kaeru's Theme' by MintJam

VGMix WIPs

• 'CT Ambience' by JDPoZ
• 'What hath thou done with this?' by Vicks Cornatto

VGMix 1

• 'Frog's Theme Arranged' by Alastair

ViViX

• 'Kaeru's Theme' by ViViX

From: Music (Chrono Trigger)

--ZeaLitY 16:28, 22 Oct 2004 (CDT)