The Spirit Temple's Music in Ocarina of Time and its Real World Influences 

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Everything in ocarina of time is ironically timeless. Still the best game ever made to this day

Even the pots represent duality, two pots fly at you and cause damage, yet both have hearts in them that heal the damage caused

I'd love to see an analysis of Majora's Mask as well as Ganon's Tower from Ocarina of Time.

Funny as that clip from The Mummy is, I could totally see ReDeads looking like that if there was a high budget LoZ live-action film.

0:04 You forgot the sounds of the 2 pots going after Link

I'd love it if you kept exploring the Ocarina of Time's soundtrack. The child dungeons, Hyrule's Field, Gerudo Valley, Kokiri's Forest, Lon Lon Ranch, the bosses' theme, etc. I'm sure it would be amazing.

I may not be the first person to say this but the music NEVER feels complete unless you have the flying pots at the beginning of the song

I don’t know what it is but I absolutely LOVE the sound of middle-eastern instruments. So hypnotic and interesting

I like the theory that the goddess of the sand is actually twinrova, who convinced the gerudo to worship her while waiting for the one destined to try and conquer the triforce, i.e. Gannondorf. It fits in so well with the duality if the temple and why the hylians believe she is evil

This is an incredible video. Crazy to think the developers in Japan drew so much from worldwide influences. Great job with this!

I would love a reflection on the temples of Twilight Princess! That’s my childhood, I’d love to hear how the art of music helped influence how I felt about the temples as a child!

Now i unterstand why the spirit temple gave a sense of home and familiarity to me.

It amazes me how much art depicts the Hero of Time as right-handed. He was left-handed.

The "this instrument is sick, but I can't play it on horseback" like is honestly gonna be iconic for me already.

I especially love this one. I have quite the active imagination myself, and I imagine the music playing to someone being near-hopelessly lost in the desert, either from simply being exiled, or just losing track of where they were going. Its somber, sad, and relays the ruthless and scorching heat of the desert sun.

Definitely one of my favorite temple themes for that very exotic ambiance it has

Honestly, I'll watch whatever music analysis video you make! Seeing Majora's Mask would be cool, but I wouldn't mind seeing other deep dives into other game franchises and their soundtracks.

traumatized by that redead section but this is honestly my favorite video of your series, whenever I play the spirit temple I always stop to admire it for how beautiful it is and then watching this with all this new knowledge is just so fascinating

I always assumed it was a statue of the first Gerudo woman, who was eventually looked at as a deity as time went on. The Gerudo themselves have a rough reputation, so the Hylians thinking that she's evil wouldn't be a big surprise. Down the road, I started to wonder if it represented Din. No matter what, it's a fun and enjoyable mystery, and has one of my favorite dungeon songs from a Zelda game, ever.

To this day I still get goosebumps when I hear the Spirit Temple OST

adding to the duslity/“light and darkness” point- the snake statues’ wording also plays into this, like “the pure heart of a child”

Brutal man... I love this in particular because of the Egyptian or Phrygian Dominant kinda vibe.... Its incredible how it makes you feel inside a temple... In a nameless city... The way you break down the instruments and every part of the song is just amazing.....

I hope you’ll do analysis on the dungeons from Twilight Princess too, these videos are really good and super interesting to learn from

Whoever the artist is for the stills you use at the beginning of the videos, that's the aesthetic I want for an Ocarina remake.

I recall how back in the days of my youth and to this day the music of the spirit temple would hunt me in a scary but also in a strange but beautiful way almost to the point of being hypnotic and somehow i felt empowered by the strong start the moment you set foot on the temple.Will always be the best game and have the best music ever composed in the industry.

Best theme in OoT. Best temple EVER.

The spirit temple may be the reason i love deserty themes so much, especially that music

Spirit temple definitely has the sound of a real temple compared to the other temples (other than the fire temple, though I don't believe the fire temple to have been created by the gorons, the architecture just doesn't match goron city). Definitely my second favorite song in the game

Ancient egypt and their gods were icons for occult practise. Thats why. Game, movie, art, and music industry are all influenced by it and use it. It used to be hidden in film and music videos but in the last 10 yrs its become mainstream. And i think i know why ;)

I started 2021 with a dude explaining me the ost of my favourite game. Thanks.

I've always loved desert levels in video games. The Spirit Temple is my favorite out of the five in OOT. The music fits completely and really added to my enjoyment when I first played the game. Thanks for this video!

The intro melody of the song comprises a gong, layered with a chime and a synthesizer sound... The pads that support the piece throughout are synthesized, as well, possibly based on an electronically processed trumpet sound with a chorus effect...

You should do an analysis on the lost woods/saria's song

I speculate that the Goddess of the Sand *is* Din, or an aspect of her specific to the desert. Toward the beginning of the game, the Great Deku Tree recounts the legend of Hyrule's creation, in which Din is said to have created "the red earth." At this point in the cutscene, we see the canyon leading to Gerudo Valley--simple re-use of assets I'm sure, but noteworthy in context; in any case, the rocks of both Gerudo Valley and the desert have a distinct reddish hue. Note also that Din is associated with fire, which symbolically links her to the hot, dry climate of the desert and harsh sun conditions, and besides the numerous Egyptian-style sun motifs in the Spirit Temple, many of the puzzles involve fire or sunlight and sun imagery. Finally, Din's Triforce virtue, Power, is the one most associated with the combat-ready and proud Gerudo people. I think the ancient ancestors of the Gerudo primarily worshiped Din and developed iconography for her that they saw in the environment around them and readily associated with Power: suns, birds of prey, and serpents.

Hooray! This is one of my favorite series on RU-vid

absolutely my favorite temple piece in OoT. Due in no small part to hearing a clip from the title screen transitions and realizing how far I'd come since starting the game :,,,,)

I'm 20 I remember playing this when I was 15 and the song of storms is a song I will never forget

Holy crap, so much research~ This is so brilliant! You're AMAZING!

You're not done with the series yet! Malon's Ranch, inside the castle, the potion shop, Zorron's domain... you've just started my friend!

These videos on game music need a playlist

the part I enjoy the most about these videos is the Banjo-Kazooie music in the background. Good to see that game's music getting some recognition.

I'm super impressed at both your research as well as Nintendo's. I always loved the music in Ocarina of Time, but this made our even better.

Dude, I don't even know who I came across with your video but you just give me so much clarity about this song. To be honest, if I feel sad and I want to cry and feel better I listen to this song. After 5min I feel like another and ready to continue my day with a ton of energy. This melody is the melody of my life. Thank you!

whenever i listen to this music in my head, I CANNOT NOT HEAR THE POTS.

Awesome video bro! This is one of my favorite temples and temple music.

Oh, I'll always love that theme, such a masterpiece!

A samples video would be amazing! Also when you’re done with majoras mask maybe you could explore some of the non temple music, like the gerudo valley theme, how it is flamenco music but still fits into the middle east environment because of flamenco’s roots (among other things) in arabic music

I haven’t played OOT in so long I always forget just how much I loved the Spirit Temple. That whole game is perfection!

I just got lucky with the RU-vid algorithm and discovered your channel. Amazing analysis, wonderfully done.

Thank you for this series! It's been really fun and ive been looking forward to every single one of them. Majoras Mask being my favorite Zelda game by far, I'd love you to continue with analyzing its music, maybe even tracks from other places in the game? I'm just always excited for MM content tbh. One Zelda game where the soundtrack really struck me was Skyward Sword. It's been a long time since I've played, but the OST always stuck with me because it was so outstanding in my opinion. I'd love to see analysis on that!

Another great video!! Love these.

5 goddesses, Hylia, Din, Nayru, Farore, and The Goddess Of The Sand

0:04 I had a dream about that exact place, before I even knew it existed outside of my dreams.

Can you tell I'm binging your series? lol I came for the music, but I thoroughly appreciate the research into history, culture, and architecture you present in these videos, it's very consistently well done and entirely engaging throughout. Thank you for the series!

I just stumbled randomly on this video and on your channel, and I absolutly love. Keep up the good work !

This is legit one of the first games I ever played growing up with the N64. I remember my uncle forcing me to fight some of the bosses because I was scared 🤣This game got me into gaming. Music is so nostalgic. Zelda is just f****** AWESOME! When the 3ds remake came out I damn near passed out. It looks so good 😭😥. Majoras Mask to oml!

@5:30 The general anatomy of the glyphs most resembles _dhammalipi_ (brahmi script) as opposed to hieratic or even futhark (even with ᛦ advantage). The temple seems to exhibit an Indo-Egyptian hybrid most strongly. But I absolutely love the extremely lofty respect afforded to ☯ ❤️ @6:31 To think we're on the MEDALLION itself ! WOW !!! Plus we literally start off the temple's song with our Gongs too. It's almost like the duality of YinYang itself. Our Gongs start it off and our Taijitu ends it. You're mistaken when you say 陰陽 is merely "philosophical" however... Every single one of our Schools were religious and philosophical at their outsets without distinction.

I’m super surprised to see that y’all don’t have more subscribers. Your videos are extremely well-done and professional with polish and high production value.

From a History class in college, I learned that I liked Egyptian history. Amenhotep III had a son who I think named his son Amenhotep IV who rebelled from his father and changed his name to Akhentan. I think he also tried to make himself a god and wanted people to worship. He took over Aten and wanted to start Atenism. trying to get away from a polytheistic religion which was traditional in Egypt. His mom is Tiye also. It was said that Nefretiti and Akhentan were the parents of King Tut which is cool. Atenism was worshiping a sun god I think. Just some random history. ^-^

love the interpretation of the 10th Sikh guru

You made me like the new Gerudo symbol. Wow. Great video there. I love your analysis on the architecture and everything else before you touch in the music part. It's deeper than a lot of those we find in Zelda theory youtube channels. Earned yourself a subscriber!

My favorite temple from this game, way back when I first played it as a 10 year old child when the game released. Thank you for doing this!

I come back yearly to watch this series grow and evolve. It not only renews my love of the Zelda franchise but it makes me sad that most games don't seem to think about their music this deeply anymore.

7:04 that got a chuckle from me.

Thank you for making me appreciate the newer Gerudo symbol. It was somewhat confusing the first time I saw it, but now it finally makes sense 😊🐍

Dude, I grew up with the Collector’s Disc on GameCube, but I didn’t have a memory card so I would just sit on the title screen because one of two cutscenes would play and the one I loved the most was the scene of Nabooru being attacked by Twinrova while this song played in the background. The song would open on Link standing above her before Koume and then Kotake poof into existence. They all stare at Nabooru for a few seconds before she gets up to try and run. But then the twins attack and the scene fades out to white. Never being able to progress more than the first two or three dungeons, I always thought Nabooru was the villain character in this scene, but regardless, I thought it looked cool the way it was shot and the Spirit Temple music playing over it quickly became one of my favorite tracks in the game.

I can recite _hundreds_ of Zelda tracks by heart, but I never gave enough attention to the more atmospheric ones. Thank you for giving me a newfound appreciation for the dungeon/temple themes!

For anyone wanting to know what the tonality Koji Kondo uses, because the video only covers the vague influence, well.... It's a mix of tonalties. Right at the start, the synth stabs are outlining a typical motif you'd find in Phrygian. Phrygian, is the third mode of the major scale with these intervals: 1 b2 b3 4 5 b6 b7. That is, our root, minor second, minor third, perfect fourth, perfect fifth, minor sixth, and minor seventh. That half step move from the root to the minor second, is a common motif in compositions written in the Phrygian mode. The key center is G, so we're dealing with this pool of notes: G Ab Bb C D Eb F. Right at the beginning of the piece, we hear F moving to G, then from C to Bb, that's harmonized in parallel fourths. Then it moves from F to Ab to G, then does so again in another octave, again, harmonized in parallel fourths. So that's all well and good, right? Well, after this introduction of sorts, we're still in this Egyptian, Middle-Eastern flair, and it comes out MUCH more powerfully in the bulk of the song. The tonalities used here are a mix of various tonalities that change depending on the line. They are: * Phrygian Dominant = Which is just Phrygian with a major third instead of a minor third. Very Egyptian in sound. * Byzantine Scale = This is the scale that you get if you start off of Hungarian minor's fifth degree. * Good ol' Phrygian. The reason I say it's a mix, because a lot of notes are given half step embellishments, and these string of half steps are common in these kinds of scales. And it's actually not all that uncommon to change what you're doing right in the middle of a composition. The piece is still mostly Phrygian, but it's really looked at as nothing more than an outline, because a lot of its cooler notes and intervals are given heavy embellishment and changes depending on mood and feel. This is what makes these what Joe Stump calls "The dark scales of metal" so expressive sounding.

Just stumbled across your channel today! And I gotta say I’m so glad I did!! 🙌

Ocarina is a master piece that no game has ever beaten I mean absolutely no game in my heart will ever surpass this game. This is my most beloved and precious game of all time I could play it a million times and still fresh in my heart. The music the story this game had it all back in the 64 era. I wish Nintendo would top another Zelda like ocarina of time I never felt the same way ever again in my life.

My favorite music in the whole OST

I sometimes listen to an hour or so extended RU-vid video of this song at work. It's just entrancing and beautiful.

Koji Kondo is a musical genius. The OOT soundtrack is practically embedded into my soul. I first played it on my uncle's N64 years ago, when I was still a kid. At some point later on, I got the soundtrack on CD.

Whoa... dude you‘re insane you deserve tons of subscriptions

This Theme gives me goosebumps every time.😳 Great Video, you know a lot about Instruments i never heard of. Greetings from germany. 🙂

The final and best Ocarina of time temple 🧘☯️🔝 perfect music, ambience, items, bosses, everything about this temple is straight ICONIC! The silver gauntlets and the mirror shield are so badass

Fantastic finish to this Ocarina of Time Temple series. I think this song and the temple design definitely have the most depth out of any of the previous Temple themes that were covered. Forest Temple is still my favorite but Spirit Temple is a close second for me. Looking forward to seeing what you explore next. Possibly Majora's Mask?

listening to this again, i get the resemblance of this theme in Vah Naboris' theme..... and THAT'S why it sounded so familiar, woah Great analysis! I love how you always put in architectural and cultural aspects and game lore and relate them to the musical themes. ALSO the trigger warnings are greatly appreciated!

my online moniker was requiem0fspirit for years bc i love this song so much. what a fantastic video!

I have never wanted to replay this game more

I was looking at theories about OOT temples and accidentally found this series of music analysis and I really enjoyed it! It would be interesting to talk about BOTW soundtracks I think, especially after I learned that there is a so code in divine beasts themes

Easily my second favorite dungeon theme in Ocarina of Time. When I hear this, I can almost feel the sun on my back at the temple entrance, wiping the sweat from my forehead as I catch my breath, I might be a little tired after traversing the desert, but I've only a little more to go

would love to hear your analysis of both Majora's dungeons and the Twilight Princess temples 😊👏👏

I knew it! I'm glad you mentioned Uncle Iroh, because that's exactly where my head went lol

I love B&K music you have playing when you aren't analyzing the Zelda songs. Good music going the entire video!!!

Watching this video is an archaeological music theory class seminar I love it thank you

I fucking love the spirit temple. And the music is the cherry on top of the cake

This series is awesome. Definitely the temples of Majora's mask but also certain songs like when the clock is ticking for the moon to crash and the town itself from all 3 days. And twilight princess temples would be 💋💋

I think as a child my favorite soundtrack was the Forest Temple. I was only 8 when I played OOT after it first came out on N64 so naturally I have precious memories of this game, but I just can't get the same experience as an adult anymore. :( Thank you for at least letting me feel nostalgic with videos like these.

Great job explaining the map en the music instruments used

Great video, I i learned a whole lot watching this, especially in regards to the various instruments such as the duduk, dilruba and darbuka. I also never guessed that the updated Gerudo symbol was a reference to Horus, learned something new. One thing i want to point out though, before i forget, in Sikhism, the practitioners are called Sikhs, but the word is pronounced as seek, not sick, despite how the word looks. I watched your Fire Temple video first before finding this one, definitely enjoying the series so far!

First off, I LOVE your videos. You are the first RU-vidr in all the time I've been on RU-vid to whom I have subscribed at literally the first video I saw--and only halfway through the video at that. Keep it up! Secondly, can you do Wind Waker? I started on OoT so WW was the first zelda game I came across that didn't use an ocarina and I have always been curious about the choice. Plus I love the music in that one. Not just temples but locations, like Outset Island or the Korok place

Twilight Princess' music would be AWESOME! thank you so much for these videos!

Used to go to this italian restaurant that always used to play this song. Brings back weird memories.

I absolutely love this one. The Spirit Temple music has always been my favorite. Honestly, I would love to see you tackle music from any other Zelda games

Your content is amazing!

Awesome video, really well done

The music in desert-y areas in video games is somehow always the best. I've always loved the general soundscape of these typical middle-eastern instruments.

Thank you for doing my favorite Zelda Temple theme!!!!