Castlevania Belmont’s Curse: Notre Dame Secret Piano Song (War and Famine)

Death has corrupted the pipes of the Great Organ in Notre-Dame, and purple corruption seals off routes through the cathedral’s side aisles until you repair it. You fix it by playing music. Rose collects three Melody Sheets, then walks across the giant zodiac floor keys under the organ in the order each sheet shows. Every melody you complete clears more corruption, and the third one opens the way to your second fight with Death, who drops the Double Jump ability.

Quick answer: In the Great Organ Room, play Moon, Sun, Moon, Virgo (Fugue). Then play the Sonata and Concerto orders listed below once you have their sheets. Then go fight Death in the Choir.

Great Organ Room location and how the floor keys work

At Notre-Dame’s lowest tier, the Great Organ Room lies immediately above the Main Hall. Enter from the map’s eastern edge, then follow the southern passages downward to reach it. A spirit waiting at the foot of the organ chamber stairs explains that the corruption can be cleansed by finding the cathedral maestro’s sheets, and gives you the first sheet.

A purple ghost speaks in a dialogue box beside a red-haired heroine in a dark skull-filled crypt with green glowing marks. — A Spirit explains that the monster dragged souls down to the Altar of Bones, urging the player to follow the green marks on the walls of a skull-lined crypt.

The organ itself is a row of 14 floor keys, and each key has a zodiac or celestial symbol marked on the floor. There’s no button prompt. Rose plays the organ by moving across it.

Walking, jumping, or sliding onto a key triggers it.
A pressed key sinks, glows, rings a chime, and fires a green beam of light upward.
Sun and Moon form the central pair, with Sun on the left and Moon on the right.
Keys you don’t need for a melody can be left alone.

Counting from the left end of the row, these are the keys the three Melody Sheets use:

Key	Position from left	Side of row
Gemini	3	Left
Cancer	4	Left
Leo	5	Left
Virgo	6	Left of center
Sun	7	Center
Moon	8	Center
Sagittarius	11	Right
Capricorn	12	Right
Aquarius	13	Right
Pisces	14	Far right

Melody Sheet locations and key orders

Notre-Dame has three Melody Sheets. Each one goes back to the same organ, and each one clears part of the corruption. You have to play them in the order you find them, because each melody opens the route to the next sheet.

Rose speaks in a dialogue box while Joan stands in armor on a rampart beside a planted sword, with fire and a cathedral behind. — Rose introduces herself as Rose Belmont and asks Joan for her key while the two stand on the rampart before burning Notre-Dame.

Melody Sheet	Where to find it	Clef	Keys
Fugue of Notre-Dame	Great Organ Room	Bass	4
Sonata of Notre-Dame	Sealed Scriptorium	Alto	7
Concerto of Notre-Dame	La Flèche	Treble	7

Melody Sheet for the Fugue of Notre-Dame

The spirit by the organ chamber stairs gives you this sheet, so you can play it as soon as you arrive. It uses only the middle of the row. Play Moon, Sun, Moon, Virgo, which is keys 8, 7, 8, then 6. Finishing it opens the route on the right side of the room.

Title screen with a golden tarot card and Start button in front of a gothic cathedral, a swordsman and gargoyle statues. — The title screen of Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse shows a tarot-style card with a Start button before Notre-Dame cathedral under a blood-red moon.

Melody Sheet for the Sonata of Notre-Dame

A spirit in the Sealed Scriptorium, southeast of the Ferryman’s Wharf, hands over the second sheet. Take it back to the Great Organ Room. Every note in this melody is on the right side of the row: play Sagittarius, Capricorn, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Capricorn. A chord plays, a green dome of light fills the room, and a right-hand path opens. Head back up and explore it.

Dialogue scene with Joan's portrait below a fiery, ruined city and cathedral, a sword planted on a rampart and a small hero standing nearby. — Joan speaks on a burning rampart before Notre-Dame, saying she patrolled the streets and rooftops and imagines someone else watches the cemetery and its undercroft.

Melody Sheet for the Concerto of Notre-Dame

The last sheet is at the top of La Flèche, the cathedral’s spire. The climb up is timed.

A small figure stands on a red carpet before a giant painting of Notre-Dame Cathedral amid turbulent teal waves and orange clouds. — A heroine stands on a red carpet in a gothic gallery before a huge painting of Notre-Dame Cathedral rising above stormy green waves.

Teleport to the Triforium and head right until you reach the base of the La Flèche tower.

Activate the timer, then scale the tower to the top before time expires.

Talk to the spirit at the summit to get the Concerto sheet.

Go back to the Great Organ and play Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Leo, Virgo, Leo, Gemini. All seven notes are on the left side of the row.

How to tell a melody registered

Each note you play correctly produces a distinct green beam and chime, letting you verify your progress one key at a time. Completing a melody makes the organ glow green, with a luminous clef forming among the pipes: the Fugue shows a bass clef, the Sonata an alto clef, and the Concerto a treble clef. After each sheet is completed, a “new clue about the Shadow” banner appears. Since the Shadow is Death’s Arcana, this confirms your progress toward that encounter.

Death boss fight in the Choir and the Double Jump reward

Once the Concerto is played, the cleared side aisles lead to Death’s room in the Choir district. The entrance is northwest of the Mirror of Life in the Notre-Dame Undercroft, so use that mirror to save before you go in. This is your second fight with Death. You first meet him in the Catacombs of Paris, but this is the one where you can beat him.

Death	Value
Health	8444
Attack	40
XP	1000
Arcana card	The Shadow
Spell reward	Soul Harvest

Death is immune to bleed, freeze, petrify, launch into the air, slam down, Chronomantic Dive slow, Freezing Path link, and Infernal Pyre launch. Choose your spells with that in mind.

Defeating him awards The Shadow Arcana, which pairs Death as the character with the Soul Harvest spell and Double Jump ability. Granted in the Choir, Double Jump is the game’s fifth and final ability, allowing Rose to leap again while airborne.

Notre-Dame secret organ song for War and Famine

The same organ has a fourth tune that isn’t written on any Melody Sheet. Playing it opens a sealed basement beside the Great Organ Room, and the Legendary dual swords War and Famine are inside. You don’t need any of the three sheets for this. It also completes the Work of Mercy “Complete the hidden puzzle in Notre Dame” for The Shadow Arcana, which gives 1 Blessing that you spend on 1 Gift of Soul Harvest.

Rose stands on a stone rampart facing a kneeling armored Joan before a burning cathedral, with Rose's dialogue box below. — Rose speaks with Joan on a rampart before a burning Notre-Dame: “Joan of Arc? The warrior who stood against the English? But you were taken prisoner and burned at”

You need Air Dash; Aries at the far-left end and Pisces at the far-right end are out of reach on foot.
The notes have no countdown, so take your time playing them.
A plaque close to the room points to something buried beneath a staircase; that’s the spot where the basement opens.

Candle order for the zodiac keys

Look for the clue in a Notre-Dame stained-glass gallery. Its windows depict zodiac signs, each with one to nine candles lit below. Play them in ascending candle count, from the smallest number to the largest. Treat the central Sun and Moon pair as one note.

Small heroine and tall armored knight stand on a wooden bridge beneath giant flames and a gothic cathedral. — The heroine and a dark armored knight face each other on a bridge as flames engulf the city and Notre-Dame towers behind them.

Note	Key	Candles	Key position
1	Libra	1	1st right of center
2	Scorpio	2	2nd right of center
3	Sagittarius	3	3rd right of center
4	Pisces	4	Far-right outer key
5	Virgo	5	1st left of center
6	Sun & Moon	6	Center
7	Leo	7	2nd left of center
8	Cancer	8	3rd left of center
9	Aries	9	Far-left outer key

Only step on the keys in the table, because several keys aren’t part of the song. If the candle counts in your windows are different, go by the candles. The lowest count always comes first.

One wrong key breaks the sequence, and you have to start over from Libra.

Playing the song

Begin at the organ’s right edge. Move outward from the center, stepping on Libra, Scorpio, then Sagittarius.

Air Dash to the far-right edge and land on Pisces. Look for the beam of light to confirm the note counted.

Run back toward the middle. Step on Virgo, then on the Sun and Moon center.

Proceed leftward and step on Leo, followed by Cancer.

Use Air Dash to reach the outermost key on the left, then touch down on Aries to complete the song.

If it worked, you’ll see a green musical flash on the left side of the screen and a “Work of Mercy completed” banner. The basement stays unlocked after that, so you never have to play the song again.

Reaching the War and Famine altar

Take the left-hand exit from the Great Organ Room, then head back toward the stairs beside the plaque.

Find the section of floor that’s now open and ride the lift down into the vault under the stairs.

Sprint east along the underground passage and stop at the glowing altar.

Use the altar to claim War and Famine. When its weapon card appears, hold the prompt to equip the swords immediately.

War and Famine	Value
Weapon type	Dual swords
Rarity	Legendary
Tier	4
ATK	100
Attack power	33
Stagger power	30
Mana per hit	2
Combo finisher	Blade Flurry

These swords reward precise timing. Press Attack at the instant your previous blow connects to extend the combo instead of letting it end. When the sequence finishes, its final strike creates a field on the ground that empowers Rose while she remains inside. For full Notre-Dame completion, also find the DEF UP book, three secret areas, and one breakable wall in the Great Organ Room.