Triforce Chamber / Power of the Gods - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Описание: Full Music analysis for the Triforce theme in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ost in comments. Best Nintendo music. Written by Koji Kondo for the Super Nintendo. Video game music theory and piano deconstruction.

And thus the Triforce spoke to men. And it became present in history.

And you better treasure and contemplate this moment seldom witnessed in the course of the series. The elusive opportunity to interact and touch the most important artifact. You are now in the presence of something truly transcendent, straight from the divine realm and crafted by hand by the creators of the universe for some higher purpose; the magic present here is not your typical fantasy fairy but something deeper. Pure spiritual induced ecstasy and bliss.

It is the Essence of the Triforce that speaks directly to the hero's soul, its words echoing not through air but imprinted directly. An entity that in the prologue is said to be omnipotent and omniscient, akin to the concept of the Trinity. At its feet you feel fulfilled and in your altered state of consciousness it seems that nothing else matters. You are being pulled, almost levitating towards it.

This is what this music is all about, what it wants to convey. This is the real cue of the Sacred Realm, a kingdom that no longer has Ganon's presence. It harks back to the opening of the game which was all about the Golden Land and its relic. With that 3/4 meter in the string and similar descending chromatic movement it recalls the Section 2 of that prologue. Yet, the ambiguity has been dispelled at last.

And what does the most sacred object in the universe deserves as a lead instrument? Of course the fricking honky tonk piano from some decadent saloon. Well, that is not the idea. The sample is just too multifaceted; having served as a bass guitar and a Hammond organ before, it now gives some kind of ethereal lush to the string melody. In any case it is the melody, harmony and strings the ones who do the heavy lifting in elevating this sacred chamber. As its official title says, this one represents the gods of Hyrule.

It is also one of those musical cues that belongs forever to just A Link to the Past, not having found much of a reuse in the span of the sttried series; other opportunities for it could have been in The Wind Waker or Skyward Sword, where we hear the Great Fairy theme related to the mythical three triangles.

Musically, it begins with the same scale that we hear whenever we rescue one of the maidens. This is the sound that you ought to hear whenever you succeed before an enemy. The main difference to mark this moment as extra special is that this figure, which is a G7/9 chord, is played with strings and not glockenspiel (the maidens also used Zelda's Theme, meaning this lullaby is supposed to be played to all royal girls). It is actually the shorthand for the sacred within the story since this impressionistic arpeggio figure actually opens up the title theme when we first got a glimpse of the triforce pieces; albeit back then was a Eb7/9.

And these 7/9 chords serve as the dominant chord that launches into the bulk of the track directly on the tonic, so here we get a melody in the C Ionian/Major profile. And what do we use for endings to pull the nostalgia strings? That is right the I to IV movement favored in end credits themes and also the basis for the evocative yearn heard on the opening from Ocarina of Time. The strings here limit themselves to just perfect fifths, going from C5 to F5. This harmony movement is then transposed to Ab5. After this we get the chromatic movement reminiscent of the prologue: C5 - Bb5 - A5 - Ab5 - G5............

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