Prelude of Light
Template:Song The "Prelude of Light" is a recurring song in Template:LZS.
Appearances
Ocarina of Time
In Ocarina of Time, the "Prelude of Light" is one of the six Warping songs Link learns as an adult. Using the Template:It, it transports Link inside the Temple of Time. After the hero completes the Forest Temple, Link can return to the Temple of Time to learn this song from Sheik.
Twilight Princess
In Twilight Princess, Wolf Link can summon the Golden Wolf by howling the "Prelude of Light" at the Howling Stone near the entrance to the Sacred Grove.
Music Theory
The "Prelude of Light" is 8 bars long in 4/4 time, and in the key of D Major. Harmonically, the first four bars give the feeling of a church setting by using only I and IV chords, a technique used frequently in Mass settings and known commonly as the "Hallelujah" or plagal cadence. The last 4 bars employ the unusual harmonic ending of ii7 - bIIma7 - Ima7 with the last arpeggiated riff in the harp part giving finality to the last I chord and resolving the 7th at the top.[1]
The "Prelude of Light" is actually a conclude, not a prelude, as the notes descend from a triumphant feel to a gloomy one.
Gallery
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Link and Sheik playing the "Prelude of Light" in Ocarina of Time
References
Names in Other Regions | |||
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Language | Name | Meaning | |
Japanese | 光のプレリュード (Hikari no Pureryūdo) | Prelude of Light | |
French | Prélude de la Lumière | Prelude of the Light | |
German | Kantate des Lichts | Cantata of Light | |
Italian | Preludio della luce | ||
Spanish | Preludio de la Luz | Prelude of the Light |