Kingdom Hearts - Light of the Worlds (KH3 Final Battle Fan Arrangement)

Edit 10/2: Now with annotations! Did you guess all the cues correctly?

Ahh, where do I start? (Aside from Youtube mangling the audio on this... make sure you have the highest audio playback quality!). Welcome to my second summer project (the first being "Journey") and my biggest one yet! First off, the initial idea of writing this arrangement was a theoretical "If I were assigned to write the very last battle track of the whole Kingdom Hearts series, what would it sound like?" I have been a KH fan for as long as the games have existed, and with it, an adoring fan of Yoko Shimomura's brilliant work on them. It pleases me to no end that she does top-notch scoring AND likes oboes, so the thought of playing oboe in KH3 is kind of my own personal version of "I wanna be an astronaut when I grow up". This track was also inspired by the striking realization that there is a chance I will be in my 30s by the time I get to play KH3. This does not please me quite as much.

So what WOULD it sound like if she made me score it? Approximately like this:
0:00 - Introduction/Speech
0:56 - First Stage
2:24 - Second Stage
3:54 - Third Stage
5:15 - Reflection
5:44 - Final Stage

Nearly every arrangement decision is symbolic somehow, from the order of the pieces used to the particular character themes that work with or against one another. And of course all the oboe and EH are live! However it was a challenge writing battle music without a decent percussion library.

"Light of the Worlds" is dedicated to all the fans out there who have been literally growing up with the games and impatiently await the day they can kick the crap out of old man Xehanort forever.

It uses 15 pieces in all. Can you find them? All original music and themes by Yoko Shimomura.