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it's kinda weird how every one of these but one is named after a *type* of musical piece, and then bolero of fire is named after a specific musical piece (that is has basically nothing in common with)
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@Felthry iirc "bolero" is also a musical form, that the specific piece was named after?

@starkatt Is it? We've never seen any other example of it, though.
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@starkatt huh! apparently it is, a Cuban style from the 19th century. Never knew that!
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@Felthry ...deleted a post because I thought the famous piece with that name was 20th century and American, when in fact it's 20th century and French.

@Felthry @starkatt I think it might be intended to refer to the 18th-century Spanish dance, rather than the Cuban style? The Ocarina of Time version feels like it's in three, which Wikipedia says the dance is in

idk

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@packbat @starkatt yeah a couple people pointed out that there is a style called the bolero after the cuban dance, we had always thought it was just the name of ravel's bolero
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@Felthry I imagine there's something to it, Koji Kondo fucking loves puzzles, but I certainly haven't cracked it. -Katie

@Felthry Ravel's Boléro was named after a dance, and it looks like there's also a musical genre named after that same dance — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolero

@Felthry Had to go find and listen to all of them - we don't know Zelda music that well!

I was considering the Prelude of Light and the Serenade of Water, but I voted for the Nocturne of Shadow just for the very lovely dissonances. Just the most interesting for me personally to listen to several times.

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@packbat these are given here in the order they're learned in the game, and i think there's some element of making them more complicated as you go along to them? we've always felt that nocturne and requiem are the most interesting ones
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@Felthry @packbat

frankly the shadow temple's main music is the most dissonant track in the game in a lovely but terrifying way.

@nautilee @packbat I think our favorite dungeon music is either forest or spirit
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