Joe Hisaishi's piece "Carrying You" also known as "Innocent" is the main theme to Study Ghibli's movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky. This is my favorite Ghibli theme from my favorite Ghibli movie; it hits with incredible nostalgia and sorrow, but beauty as well.

In this video I analyze the piece's harmony as well as its formal structure.

I use my own unique form of Roman numeral analysis that borrows the inversion system from German functional analysis. The bass note is indicated below the Roman numeral (e.g. 3 = 3rd of the chord is in the bass.)

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0:00 Slow Introduction
0:51 Refrain 1
1:37 Couplet 1
2:18 Refrain 2
2:56 Couplet 2
3:55 Refrain 3

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