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" The Legend of Zelda Theme " is a recurring piece of music that was created for the first game of the franchise.

The composer, Koji Kondo, initially planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the game's title theme, but was forced to change it when he learned, late into the game's development cycle, that the copyright for Boléro hadn't expired yet ; therefore he wrote a new arrangement of the overworld theme within one day.