Cruise Elroy

First things first: a mission statement. So far my music posts have been straight-up theoretical analysis. While I think there’s a lot to be learned from studying music on its own terms, context is important also. And since this is purportedly a blog about video games, I’d like to move beyond the self-indulgent theory posts (…)

Inspired by Michael Abbott’s post on music in the Legend of Zeldacite series, I’ve been working up harmonic analyses for the songs Link learns to play in Ocarina of Time. I’ll post the whole thing when it’s ready, but in the meantime I wanted to share something interesting I noticed about Koji Kondo’s harmonic palette. (…)