I have a certain Pokémon affair that I can't reveal just yet, but all I can say for now is that it may be (one of) the greatest of the great affairs I've dealt with. With that, I've decided to discuss another greatest-of-the-great affair, which would be what I call the "Pokémon fanfare", the music that was initially present in the original first-generation games and have been present in various guises since. As such, it may be said to have another great quality, that of being "eternal", and that's something to point out.
The fanfare - or it may also be called a march because of its qualities - has a two-bar lead, 16-bar main section, and an 8-bar choral section. It may be extended by looping back to the main section (which the main series games do) however many times as needed, and it also may be made to close by repeating the lead and finishing with a final note "hit". Arguably, its most popular early rendition off of the games is in the anime, which repeats once and closes in the manner I just mentioned.
As for its other renditions, it is (was) made different in the second and third generations by having different lead sections, and for the latter, it is extended with entirely different melodies. The sixth and seventh generation games too have had their takes on the music, and they're quite laudable as well. In Pokémon Go, the "professor's fanfare" may be considered to echo the original fanfare in some ways and to be adjacent to it, while the fanfare itself has its own rendition as the regular raid lobby music.
Given these renditions and the way that it has made its mark (and will continue to do so), its "eternal" quality becomes rather evident. Scores of players and fans from various generations, even if they got to know newer ones first before older ones, will no doubt be able to recognize the fanfare and know through it that Pokémon is involved somehow. They will then be able to instill and perpetuate the recognition among other players and fans, and that only becomes a further reflection of the "eternal" quality.
Being a long-time player and fan of Pokémon, I'm able to recognize what the "Pokémon fanfare" is and what it signifies, and it is indeed a great thing for the franchise among all the other great things, of which there are many. And as stated above, one of them is the one that's presenting itself to me now and I myself will present in due time. Yet if there is something that's just as great (if not greater), then that would be this piece of music that really stands for much of Pokémon.
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