Sun's Song

The "Sun's Song" is a song from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Composed by the royal Composer Brothers, Flat and Sharp, the song's main purpose is to change night to day, and day to night. Additionally, the song temporarily stuns ReDeads and Gibdos when played near one. A variation of the song is heard when dawn breaks in Hyrule Field and certain other areas. The notes to the song also usually accompany mornings in other games in the series, like the dawn of the First Day in Clock Town in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask and the morning sunrise on the Great Sea in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, as well as in Hyrule Field in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

The "Sun's Song" is useful for events that require waiting or the opposite time of day from the current time. For example, when Biggoron tells Link to wait three to four days during the trading quest for Biggoron's Sword, the "Sun's Song" can be played six to eight times to make the time pass almost instantaneously; usually, this works only after the song's effects have completed a full transition between night and day.

The meter of this song is 6/8 time. Link can play the "Sun's Song" by playing Right-C, Down-C, Up-C, Right Down-C, Up-C on his Ocarina. The actual pitches of the notes translate as follows: A, F, D, A, F, D.

Story


Link first hears of the "Sun's Song" from the Composer Brothers, who both haunt their respective gravestone in the Kakariko Graveyard. They tell him of its conception and purpose, and that the notes were inscribed onto the sealed door leading to the crypt of the Royal Family. Link opens the way to the Royal Family's Tomb by playing "Zelda's Lullaby" while standing atop a Triforce emblem and enters the tomb. He passes the small tests therein and dodges the ReDeads, and finds the tomb door. When Link plays the song, all ReDeads in the area are stunned for a short while, making his escape from the tomb much easier.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Song of Passing uses the same notes as the Sun's Song, but the three-note melody is played only once, while it is repeated twice in the Sun's Song.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
A similar fanfare plays when morning breaks in Hyrule Field.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
A variation on the "Sun's Song" is also heard in the "Ocarina of Time Medley" in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, along with "Zelda's Lullaby", the "Song of Storms", "Epona's Song", the "Song of Time", and "Saria's Song".

The Legend of Zelda: The Abridged Series
The Sun's Song is mentioned only briefly in this YouTube video series based loosely on Ocarina of Time, in which Link reflects on trying to learn the song, only to be stopped by ReDeads.