Fairy Fountain (Theme)

The Fairy Fountain theme is a recurring song in.

Appearances
The Fairy Fountain theme first appeared in, played in the file selection screen and inside Fairy Fountains. Since then, the song as appeared in every installment of the series, with the exception of and the.

Non-canon Appearances
A remix of the song is used as part of the Zelda-themed music in .

Musical Elements
This theme is ethereal, with soft, repetitive harmonies. The piece is composed of two main elements: a staccato melody that winds slowly up and down both diatonically and chromatically (due to voice-leading), and a fuller harmony that shifts down a diatonic step after every note of the melody where every eight bars the harmony progression returns back from the top. The form of the theme is simple being a repeating loop of A to A' over and over where A could be seen as the antecedent and A' could be seen as the consequent.

Inspiration
The theme is inspired by the map theme for World 3,, from .