If I play this
You don't have to think about what this is
your mind has already made the association that
you're going to see this guy
You have the drums
You have this thing that sounds like a Goron singing
Similarly, with the Zoras in Zora's Domain
you have steel drums, which invoke a very tropical island feel, being near the water
which makes sense because the Zora live in water
and then you have plucked guitar
Before I get to the next section, just a recap:
We talked about how at the beginning, Zelda music was really being used in a functional role--
and that's not to say that we move onto the next evolution that we shed anything from before, this is all cumulative--
So then we get to Link to the Past and we have cutscenes, there's this idea of cinema and using leitmotif to make associations with places and people
But up until now, we've really talked about how video game music has been imitating existing forms of music.
