Talk:Undertale Soundtrack/@comment-24889425-20151122222831

I’m going to list some edits about two leitmotifs along with my reasoning here.

One is the leitmotif first heard in “It’s Showtime!” which is currently named “Showtime”, which I had previously identified as part of Mettaton’s leitmotif, which in turn is first heard in its entirety in “Metal Crusher”. “It’s Showtime” is actually an alternate version of the first portion of “Metal Crusher”, transposed four half-tones down (from C to E) and mode-changed (from major to minor). For that reason, I plan to change the name of the “Showtime” theme back to “Mettaton”, considering it part of his entire theme in “Metal Crusher”. I would also be fine with leaving the “Showtime” motif be and simply adding it to “Metal Crusher” too, if you would prefer that.

The second leitmotif is the one that comprises “Enemy Approaching”, “Dogsong”, “Temmie Village”, etc., which is currently named “Battle”. My issue with that name is that it occurs in many songs that don’t involve battles at all, particularly whenever the Annoying Dog appears and whenever Temmies appear. Since it appears in three seemingly unrelated and disparate contexts, I plan to rename it to “Battle/Dogsong/Temmie”.

As a fellow lover of leitmotifs and reoccuring musical themes, though, I think we’ve done a great job cataloguing all of them. Toby is an amazing composer, isn’t he?