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Length: 1:40<br>
Length: 1:40<br>
Genre: PIANO AMBIENT<br>
Genre: PIANO AMBIENT<br>
VJ: [[Gyo Eguchi|VJ GYO]] (2-D art by [[Goli Matsumoto|GOLI]])<br>
Movie: [[Gyo Eguchi|VJ GYO]] (2-D art by [[Goli Matsumoto|GOLI]])<br>
First Music Game Appearance: [[AC 3rd style|beatmania IIDX 3rd style]]<br>
First Music Game Appearance: [[AC 3rd style|beatmania IIDX 3rd style]]<br>
Other Music Game Appearances:
Other Music Game Appearances:
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* Presto has an extensive "making of" on the artist's site [https://web.archive.org/web/20050327154721/http://home.att.ne.jp/aqua/samm/presto_pts/presto_pts.html].
* Presto has an extensive "making of" on the artist's site [https://web.archive.org/web/20050327154721/http://home.att.ne.jp/aqua/samm/presto_pts/presto_pts.html].
* Presto is the only BEMANI crossover in KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX.
* Presto is the only BEMANI crossover in KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX.
* Presto is the only song which does not have a DOUBLE chart in KEYBOARDMANIA series.
* Presto is the only song without Double charts in the KEYBOARDMANIA series.
* Presto received a slightly modified video in [[AC 8th style|beatmania IIDX 8th style]].
* Presto received a slightly modified video in [[AC 8th style|beatmania IIDX 8th style]].
* Before [[AC 9th style|beatmania IIDX 9th style]], Presto's BPM was shown as 135 BPM.
* Before [[AC 9th style|beatmania IIDX 9th style]], Presto's BPM was shown as 135 BPM.
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** In [[AC RB VOLZZA 2|REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA 2]], it was playable by default.
** In [[AC RB VOLZZA 2|REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA 2]], it was playable by default.
* After being removed from the initial release of [[AC RB Reflesia|REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア]], Presto was revived on August 16th, 2018.
* After being removed from the initial release of [[AC RB Reflesia|REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア]], Presto was revived on August 16th, 2018.
* Presto also appears as one of the background music selectable to play during Accel Rave Time (アクセルレイブタイム) in ''SEVEN'S BEAT'' (セブンスビート), a KONAMI medal redemption game.
== Music Comment ==
A solitary baroque fusion beloved by the century and the world


== Song Production Information ==
== Song Production Information ==
=== beatmania IIDX ===
==== [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]] ====
==== [[Takayuki Ishikawa|dj TAKA]] ====
Long before we had received this work from an acquaintance of the musician, Osamu Kubota had already proven himself as a very skilled musician. Even though the length and experience of his career far outweighs that of mine, we've still managed to become close friends.<br>
Osamu Kubota is a musician I've known as an acquaintance before I was involved in the beatmania series, and although he has a far longer career than me, we've become close friends.<br>
His music production primarily involves a lot of orchestra and jazz taste, and he's become quite famous, acting as a musical director for a certain famous TV drama and other such things.<br>
His music production mainly has an orchestral and jazz taste, and he's quite a famous composer, serving as a musical director for a certain famous TV drama among others.<br>
Now, Kubota's music has cultivated a completely new, fresh genre in beatmania. It's very unique in its essence, much more than what I asked from him. With that, this sole song became a symbol of the direction of 3rd style.<br>
This time, Osamu Kubota's song has pioneered a completely new, fresh genre in beatmania, which should've been quite unique, but he provided more than what I asked from him, and the result is a song that symbolizes the direction of 3rd style.<br>
Isn't it such a wonderful piece of music? The harpsichord, classical piano, church organ and so on, all of the elements give off a very baroque feeling. Everyone, please enjoy this magnificent fusion of styles to your heart's content.
Isn't this such a wonderful song?<br>
Everyone, please enjoy the brilliant fusion of Baroque elements and techniques in beatmania IIDX, such as the harpsichord, classical piano, and church organ.
 
=== KEYBOARDMANIA ===
A song crossed over from BMIIDX. I wonder if there are people who can clear this.


== Video Production Information ==
== Video Production Information ==
=== VJ GYO ===
=== beatmania IIDX ===
Beginning like an old movie with scratches on the film, this movie is the kind of movie you're used to seeing IIDX in on a regular basis. Even the staff was like, "Ooh! It's a progressive world with a whole new medieval flavor.
==== VJ GYO ====
From the beginning, we had planned to collaborate with the designers, but we hit a dead end when GOLI and I were only able to prepare one piece of material each.
This movie begins like an old movie with scratches on the film, and has a completely new medieval scent with an expanding progressive world, which caused the usually unfazed IIDX staff to say "wow!".<br>
We planned to collaborate with the designers from the beginning, but we hit a dead end when GOLI and I were only able to prepare one material each.<br>
This situation continued until just before production was up, and I thought I came to a situation where "I might not finish on time!", but [[Yuji Takahashi|VJ YUZ]] did a brilliant job of editing the production materials in only one day, working on it at an impossibly fast speed.<br>
The movie is created with exactly a "Presto" style (one of the tempo indications in music terminology "which means very fast"), but it also visually conveys the passionate, fast-paced development of the song.


It stayed that way until just before production was up, and I thought, "I might not make it! I've come to a situation where I can't make it, but I've been able to create and process materials, and VJ YUZ did a great job with the editing in just one day.
=== KEYBOARDMANIA ===
The movie is created in a very presto style (a speed motto in music terminology, meaning "very fast"), but it also conveys the passionate, fast-paced development of the song's visuals.
==== VJ YUZ ====
I made some changes to Presto's IIDX movie.<br>
It's unrelated, but the director of the IIDX team, [[Tadao Kageyama|KAGE]], sits next to me, and often gives me mini ramen and drinks.


== Difficulty & Notecounts ==
== Difficulty & Notecounts ==
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=== KEYBOARDMANIA ===
=== KEYBOARDMANIA ===
{{KBM Chart Header|
{{KBM Chart Header|
{{KBM Chart Notecounts|227 / 0|238 / 0|429 / 5|-|-}}
{{KBM Chart Notecounts|227 / 5|238 / 5|429 / 5|-|-}}
{{KBM Chart|KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX&rarr;3rdMIX|6|6|6|-|-}}
{{KBM Chart|KEYBOARDMANIA 2ndMIX&rarr;3rdMIX|6|6|6|-|-}}
{{KBM Chart|KEYBOARDMANIA II 2ndMIX & 3rdMIX|6|6|6|-|-}}
{{KBM Chart|KEYBOARDMANIA II 2ndMIX & 3rdMIX|6|6|6|-|-}}
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{{BEMANI MUSIC FOCUS}}
{{BEMANI MUSIC FOCUS}}
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