[VG Music Analysis (Come on down! Discuss Theory!!)]

Whoa, theory attack!

I wanted to comment on one thing:

You see, I don't see any real chord changes throughout the motion - it's all just a big statement of the tonic, in the end.

I think you have a more Schenkerian view towards analysis than I do, Gario. I'm personally interested in pulling out all those vertical chords, as opposed to collapsing harmony into functional chunks. I find it too reductive to gloss over harmonic subtlety in favor of a broader analysis -- those intermediate chords are where all the fun is for me! If I lose some of the big-picture harmonic schematic in the process, I'm okay with that; I much prefer to drill down to the details.

Hopefully that explains a bit more of where I'm coming from with these. Thanks again for the comments!

[VG Music Analysis (Come on down! Discuss Theory!!)]

It's funny that the guy implied that the sun song isn't heard anywhere else in Zelda - OoT; it's how the field map opens up the music when the morning breaks.

Yeah, that was a complete oversight on my part; I finally got around to correcting it in part 6. Oops!

I'm glad you guys are enjoying those posts.