EX_179.md

music/exemplars/formula_cards/EX_179.md

Formula card EX_179 — Ending Theme (Balance is Restored)

Game: Final Fantasy VI · Composer: Nobuo Uematsu · Purpose class: CREDITS_TRIUMPH

Tier: RUNG-1 MEASURED · measured 2026-08-07T13:11:06+00:00 · source format mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 at 44100 Hz

What the numbers say

• Length 1295.6 s across 33 sections; baseline 152.0 bpm; key F major.
• Opens silence_then_hit; the hook lands at 0.569 s.
• Arrangement runs up to 9 spectral lanes; melodic salience 0.8556 across 2128 extracted notes.
• Event grammar: 110 drops, 135 raises, 7 breaks, 46 tutti passages; silence budget 0.7%.
• Dynamic range 10.64 dB, peak at 99% through the track.
• Complexity steps 66 times across 820 bars, 15 of them at a section boundary.

What this card does not claim

• 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).

Provenance

• Source file: D:\audio\exemplars\iTunes_Sweep\Nobuo Uematsu\FINAL FANTASY VI (Original Soundtrack)\3-15 Balance Is Restored.m4a
• SHA256: 0207c04d11ab28e7219c333b63f2333ea18c022a11e7e0607abe1ea888a7f133
• Decoded by: ffmpeg.exe :: ffmpeg version 9.0-full_build-www.gyan.dev Copyright (c) 2000-2026 the FFmpeg developers
• Legal posture: ANALYSIS FOR UNDERSTANDING ONLY. Audio lawfully obtained by Josh, read from disk, measured, and never copied, redistributed, or used as model input of any kind.

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