EX_006.md

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Formula card EX_006 — Chrono Trigger Main Theme

Game: Chrono Trigger · Composer: Yasunori Mitsuda · Purpose class: TITLE_CHARACTER

Tier: RUNG-1 MEASURED · measured 2026-08-07T11:39:00+00:00 · source format mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 at 44100 Hz

Length 152.586 s across 18 sections; baseline 258.4 bpm; key E minor.
Opens silence_then_hit; the hook lands at 2.682 s.
Arrangement runs up to 9 spectral lanes; melodic salience 0.7525 across 268 extracted notes.
Event grammar: 9 drops, 2 raises, 2 breaks, 52 tutti passages; silence budget 2.5%.
Dynamic range 4.42 dB, peak at 93% through the track.
Complexity steps 3 times across 164 bars, 1 of them at a section boundary.

Lanes are a spectral_band_proxy reading, not an instrument roster. Section 11.1 requires the lane method be declared. Bands are not instruments: two instruments in one octave read as one lane, and one instrument spanning two octaves reads as two. Entry/exit and simultaneity shapes are trustworthy; a roster is not claimed.
Bar arithmetic on this card uses 4 beats per bar at the baseline tempo. The onset period beside it is MEASURED; the signature is not.
A cadence census needs harmonic transcription and is a rung-2 dimension; the seam measurement is what rung 1 can honestly report about how it ends.
Windowed key agreement below ~0.7 is the modulation signal at rung 1; a pivot-chord map needs symbolic transcription (rung 2).

Source file: D:\audio\exemplars\iTunes_Sweep\Yasunori Mitsuda\Chrono Trigger (Original Soundtrack) [DS\1-02 Chrono Trigger.m4a
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