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Revision as of 17:31, 12 March 2023
The Kingdom Hearts series features an extensive array of music that contributes greatly to the identity of the series as a whole. With over 500 unique music tracks, ten original soundtracks, numerous compilation and arrangement albums, and several live concert performances, the Kingdom Hearts series has a rich musical history that plays an important role in the franchise.
Yoko Shimomura is the primary composer for the series, with Tsuyoshi Sekito and Takeharu Ishimoto joining for later entries. Utada Hikaru created the theme songs, while a number of other artists have made arrangements and orchestrations for the series.
Terminology
Certain types of music tracks in the Kingdom Hearts series are divided into categories. "Field themes" are played when exploring a specific world outside of battle. "Battle themes" are songs played during combat – "boss themes" are a special type of battle theme used in boss battles, while "world battle themes" are used for standard enemies in a given world. Together, field themes and and world battle themes comprise "world themes".
Some specific characters have their own music theme used outside of battle, called "character themes", which almost always use the name of the character as the title of the track. Special tracks played during scripted events, such as cutscenes or mandatory encounters, may be referred to as "event themes". Additionally, some songs may fall into multiple categories under different contexts, while others may not belong to any of these groups.
Original soundtracks
Kingdom Hearts
The soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts was composed entirely by Yoko Shimomura. Nearly 100 original tracks were made for the game.[1] The international release of Kingdom Hearts featured two additional tracks, and Kingdom Hearts Final Mix included a further two more. A small handful of tracks were arrangements of existing Disney, Final Fantasy, or classical pieces, but the majority of the soundtrack was wholly original. Hikaru Utada composed the theme song pair, "Simple and Clean" and "Hikari".
Shimomura composed the soundtrack with the idea of having short, contained musical phrases that would connect different pieces together.[2] Several tracks near the game's climax incorporated the melody of the title theme, "Dearly Beloved"; songs relating to the Gummi Ship all share a two-measure melody; numerous songs relating to darkness are connected by a three-note motif: shared phrases such as these tie the soundtrack together.
Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
The Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories score consists of nearly 50 compositions, all by Yoko Shimomura. Just over half of the soundtrack is new arrangements of pieces from Kingdom Hearts, while the rest are new compositions. The original Game Boy Advance versions of these tracks have never been released on an album.
Due to the limitations of the Game Boy Advance, sound compression was a more important issue than it was for the first game on the PlayStation 2; as such, returning world themes were given new simplified arrangements. Very few tracks other than world themes are carried over from Kingdom Hearts, allowing the game to form a distinct musical identity. While short themed phrases are still implemented in the game – for instance, tracks relating to Organization XIII share a similar descending chromatic pattern – the soundtrack is not built around these common phrases in the same manner as Kingdom Hearts. Rather, similarities in instrumentation give the Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories soundtrack structure.
GAME TITLE
First paragraph: Information
- Main composers, arrangers, orchestrators
- Development notes (e.g. differing releases)
- Theme song (where applicable)
- Released in an album?
Second paragraph: The music itself
- Musical analysis (where applicable)
- Hardware limitations?
- Common instruments/techniques?
- Reusing tracks, or original arrangements?
Kingdom Hearts V CAST
Because Kingdom Hearts V CAST was produced independently of Square Enix's development process, Yoko Shimomura did not return to compose the score. Instead, the soundtrack was created by Ian Livingstone, his only contribution to the Kingdom Hearts series. The soundtrack is only ten songs long, with four of those being five-second jingles. According to Livingstone, the entire score was likely created in the span of one month.[3] None of the tracks have ever been released on an official album.
The hardware limitations of Verizon phones severely restricted the scope of the soundtrack.[4] Each world has only a single theme, and each theme loops in under 30 seconds – the Wonderland theme, for instance, is only 14 measures long. Although the soundtrack is devoid of any explicit motivic material from Kingdom Hearts, Livingstone took style and instrumentation cues from that game's soundtrack: the use of a descending piano pattern in several tracks was inspired by "Dearly Beloved", and Livingstone made stylistic decisions in the themes of returning worlds Wonderland and Agrabah that evoke similar tones to Shimomura's existing field themes.[5]
Other games
The spin-offs Kingdom Hearts Mobile, Kingdom Hearts Magical Puzzle Clash, Kingdom Hearts Digital Painter, Kingdom Hearts Re:coded Gummiship Studio, Kingdom Hearts Collaboration: Gummi Ship Campaign, and Kingdom Hearts VR Experience do not feature any original music. These promotional and companion releases may borrow tracks from full Kingdom Hearts titles – for instance, Kingdom Hearts Mobile offered ringtones from Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II, while Kingdom Hearts Magical Puzzle Clash used two songs from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days – but they do not contribute to the discography of the Kingdom Hearts series.
Arrangements and orchestrations
- Short blurb about piano collections, orchestral concerts, etc.
Notes and references
- ^ Kingdom Hearts Ultimania, Yoko Shimomura: "Also, the number of songs on the CD soundtrack was 76, but the game’s data actually has 99 songs. I said, "I don't want to have any more than 100!" and I stopped at 99." (Translation by KH Ultimania)
- ^ Kingdom Hearts Ultimania, Yoko Shimomura: "I used small themed musical phrases for this game. For example, the main song is a phrase that expresses "precious memories", and that phrase was used in some other songs. Scattered fragments of that phrase was used in the End of the World's song, but were you able to catch that?" (Translation by KH Ultimania)
- ^ Q&A with The 13th Vessel, Ian Livingstone: "The developer Superscape had some deal with Verizon and were doing lots of fast turnaround titles at the time – think I did roughly one a month."
- ^ Q&A with The 13th Vessel, Ian Livingstone: "We had such a tiny amount of memory available for the mobile midifiles the pieces had to be very short."
- ^ Q&A with The 13th Vessel, Ian Livingstone: "I did listen to Shimomura's excellent soundtrack for style and orchestration, the descending high piano motif that appears in a few of my cues was definitely a nod to her main theme, but I was also conscious to write an original score which is what was needed."
Music in the Kingdom Hearts series
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Main themes
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Dearly Beloved | Destati Chikai | Don't Think Twice | Face My Fears | Hikari | Passion | Sanctuary | Simple and Clean Hikari -PLANITb Remix- | Hikari -Ray of Hope MIX- | Passion -after the battle- | Passion -opening version- | Sanctuary -after the battle- | Sanctuary -opening version- | Simple and Clean -PLANITb Remix- | Simple and Clean -Ray Of Hope MIX- Don't Think Twice -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version- | Face My Fears -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version- | Hikari -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version- | Passion -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version-
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts
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A Day in Agrabah | A Piece of Peace | A Very Small Wish | A Walk in Andante | Always on My Mind | An Adventure in Atlantica | An Intense Situation | Arabian Dream | Beyond the Door | Blast Away! -Gummi Ship I- | Blast Away! -Gummi Ship II- | Blast Away! -Gummi Ship III- | Bounce-O-Rama | Bustin' Up on the Beach | Captain Hook's Pirate Ship | Deep Jungle | Destiny Islands | Destiny's Force | Dive into the Heart -Destati- | End of the World | Forze del Male | Fragments of Sorrow | Friends in My Heart | Go for It! | Guardando nel buio | HIKARI -KINGDOM HEARTS Instrumental Version- | Hand in Hand | Hand in Hand -Reprise- | Having a Wild Time | Hollow Bastion | Holy Bananas! | It Began with a Letter | Just an Itty Bitty Too Much | Kairi I | Kairi II | Kairi III | March Caprice for Piano and Orchestra | Merlin's Magical House | Mickey Mouse Club March | Miracle | Monstrous Monstro | Never Land Sky | Night of Fate | No Time to Think | Olympus Coliseum | Once Upon a Time | Oopsy-Daisy | Pirate's Gigue | Precious Stars in the Sky | Road to a Hero | Scherzo Di Notte | Shipmeisters' Humoresque | Shrouding Dark Cloud | Spooks of Halloween Town | Squirming Evil | Strange Whispers | The Deep End | The Heartless Has Come | This is Halloween | To Our Surprise | Traverse Town | Treasured Memories | Tricksy Clock | Turning the Key | Under the Sea | Villains of a Sort | Welcome to Wonderland | Where Is This? | Winnie the Pooh A Night on Bald Mountain | One-Winged Angel (from FINAL FANTASY VII)
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
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Another Side | Disappeared
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories
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Castle Oblivion | Disquieting | Face It! | Forgotten Challenge | Graceful Assassin | Just Wondering | La Pace | Lazy Afternoons | Memories in Pieces | Naminé | Piccolo Resto | Revenge of Chaos | Scent of Silence | Scythe of Petals | Sinister Sundown | Struggle Away | The 13th Floor | The 13th Struggle | The Fight for my Friends | The Force in You | Thirteenth Discretion
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories
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Dash-A-Long | Lord of the Castle | March-A-Long
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts II
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A Fight to the Death | A New Day is Dawning | A Twinkle in the Sky | Adventures in the Savannah | Any Time Any Place | Apprehension | Arabian Daydream | Asteroid Attack | Battleship Bravery | Beauty and the Beast | Beneath the Ground | Blast Off! | Bounce-O-Rama (Speed Up Ver.) | Byte Bashing | Byte Striking | Cloudchasers | Courage | Crossing the Finish Line | Dance of the Daring | Dance to the Death | Darkness of the Unknown | Deep Drive | Desire for All That Is Lost | Fantasia alla marcia for piano, chorus and orchestra | Fields of Honor | Floating In Bliss | Gearing Up | Hazardous Highway | He's a Pirate | Hesitation | Isn't It Lovely? | Kairi | Laughter and Merriment | Let's Sing and Dance! | Magical Mystery | Missing You | Monochrome Dreams | Nights of the Cursed | Old Friends, Old Rivals | Organization XIII | Part of Your World | Reviving Hollow Bastion | Riku | Rowdy Rumble | Roxas | Sacred Moon | Savannah Pride | Shipmeisters' Shanty | Showdown at Hollow Bastion | Sinister Shadows | Sora | Space Paranoids | Sunset Horizons | Swim This Way | Tension Rising | The 13th Dilemma | The Afternoon Streets | The Corrupted | The Encounter | The Escapade | The Home of Dragons | The Underworld | The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers | Ursula's Revenge | Vim and Vigor | Waltz of the Damned | What Lies Beneath | Working Together
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix
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Cavern of Remembrance | Deep Anxiety | Fate of the Unknown | Happy Holidays! | Rage Awakened | The 13th Reflection | The Other Promise | What a Surprise?!
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
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Another Side -Battle Ver.- | At Dusk, I Will Think of You... | Critical Drive | Crossing to Neverland | Fight and Away | Musique pour la tristesse de Xion | Mystic Moon | Results and Rewards | Secret of Neverland | Vector to the Heavens | Xemnus
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts coded
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On the Debug!!
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
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No More Bugs!! | No More Bugs!! -Bug Ver.- | Pretty Pretty Abilities | Wonder of Electron | Wonder of Electron -Bug Ver.-
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
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A Date with Fate | Aqua | Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo | Big Race | Birth by Sleep -A Link to the Future- | Black Garden | Black Powder | Castle Escapade | Cheers for the Brave | Daydream upon Neverland | Dearly Dreams | Dessert ★ Paradise | Destiny's Union | Dice and Shine | Dismiss | Drops of Poison | Enter the Darkness | Enter the Void | Eternal Moments | Extreme Encounters | Fresh Fruits Balls | Future Masters | Go! Go! Rumble Racer | Hau'oli, Hau'oli | Hero or Heel? | Innocent Times | It's a Small World | Keyblade Graveyard Horizon | Mickey Mouse March | Mákaukau? | Neverland's Scherzo | Peaceful Hearts | Radiant Garden | Rage Awakened -The Origin- | Risky Romp | Shaded Truths | Tears of the Light | Terra | The Key | The Key of Darkness | The Key of Light | The Promised Beginning | The Rustling Forest | The Secret Whispers | The Silent Forest | The Tumbling | The Worlds | Unbreakable Chains | Unforgettable | Up Down Adventure | Ventus | Xehanort
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix
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Dark Impetus | Forze dell'Oscurita | Hunter of the Dark | Master, Tell Me the Truth | Monstrous Monstro -Arena Ver.- | Night in the Dark Dream | Night of Tragedy
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
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Access the Grid | All for One | Broken Reality | CALLING -KINGDOM MIX- | Deep Drop | Digital Domination | Distant from You... | Dream Drop Distance -The Next Awakening- | Dream Eaters | Dream Matchup | Ever After | Gigabyte Mantis | Hand to Hand | Ice-hot Lobster | Keyblade Cycle | L'Apprenti Sorcier | L'Eminenza Oscura I | L'Eminenza Oscura II | L'Impeto Oscuro | L'Oscurità dell'Ignoto | La Cloche | Le Sanctuaire | Link to All | Majestic Wings | My Heart's Descent | One for All | Prankster's Party | Ready to Rush | Rinzler Recompiled | SOMEDAY -KINGDOM MIX- | Sacred Distance | Storm Diver | Sweet Spirits♡ | Symphony No.6 "Pastoral" Op.68 | TWISTER -KINGDOM MIX- | The Dread of Night | The Dream | The Eye of Darkness | The Flick Finalist | The Fun Fair | The Nightmare | The Nutcracker Suite Op.71 | The World of Dream Drops | Traverse in Trance | UNTAMABLE | Victor's Pride | Wild Blue | Xehanort -The Early Years- | Xigbar
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]
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Before the Daylight | Wake Up, World!
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross]
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A Nameless Planet | Battle at the Big Bridge | Dancing Mad | Game Central Station | Hand in Hand -Union χ Version- | Hero's Duty Troopers | I'm Gonna Wreck It! | Mission Complete! | Pixel Hero | The Candy-Filled Kingdom | The Fastest Racer | TWISTER -UNION χ MIX- | Welcome to Niceland
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover
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Master of Masters | Passing the Power | Scala ad Caelum | The Foretellers
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep -A fragmentary passage-
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Aqua -Mirror Illusion- | Forest of Thorns | The World Within | Wave of Darkness I | Wave of Darkness II
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts III
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8Bit Smasher -Link Version- | A Pirate's Adventure | A Pirate's Freedom | Afterimage | An Adventure in Atlantica -Link Version- | Anger Unchained | Aqua -Dark Dive- | AR -Augmented Rhythm- | Baymax Rebooted | Blast Off! -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Bounce-O-Rama -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Burning Ambition | Chains to Bonds | Critical Crossroad | Crossing the Finish Line -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Dark Domination | Data Trace Complete | Dawn of Hope | Dive into the Heart -Destati- Third Inception | Dive into the Heart -Destati- Third Revival | Do You Want to Build a Snowman? | Dream Eaters -Link Version- | Dual Hearts | Edge of Existence | Engage! | Enter the Darkness -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Epilogue | Eye of the Storm | First Flight | Flags of Fury | Flags of Fury -Leviathan Awakened- | Flantastic Fight | Flash Tracer | Forze Del Male -Dark Riku- | Forza Finale | Friendship's Union | Frozen Heart | Frozen Wonderland | Frozen Wonderland -Eternal Winter- | Go for It! -Into the Clouds- | Go! Go! Rumble Racer -Pudding Grand Prix- | Graveyard Labyrinth | Guardians of Light | Hand in Hand -Attraction Flow Version- | Happy Hair Day | Happy Hair Day -Into the Forest Deep- | Healing Incantation | Heart of Mystery | Hearts as One | Hearts of Courage | Hero Upgrade | Hero's Fanfare | Heroes' Gathering | Hikari -KINGDOM Tres Orchestra Instrumental Version- | It's a New Record! | Lanterns in the Sky | Let It Go | Little Lovely Moments | Lock, Load, and Blast! | Mákaukau? -Link Version- | Maximus's Matchup | Miracle on Ice | Miracle on Ice -Eternal Winter- | Monster Smash! | Monster Smash! -Code 72-16- | Monstropolis Now | Monstropolis Now -Code 72-16- | Mount Olympus | No Surrender! | Olympus Coliseum -The Shining Summit- | Organization XIII -Mark of Fate- | Replicas | Return of the Titans | Rhapsody in Tres for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra | Rise of the Union | Robot Overdrive | Rowdy Rumble -The Crazy Carriage- | Roxas's Return | Savannah Pride -Link Version- | Say Cheese! | Secrets of the Night | Shipmeisters' Shanty -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Shrouding Dark Cloud -Gigas Blast- | Sky High Slider | Sky of Wonder | Skyward Striker | Sora -Orchestra of Toads- | Star Explorer | Stranded Beyond | Sunshine Dancer | Swingin' Free | Swingin' Free -Into the Forest Deep- | Teardrop of the Sun | Tension Rising -Angelic Amber- | Tension Rising -Reaper's Revenge- | The Afternoon Streets -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | The Coolest Contest | The Corrupted -Monstrous Monsters- | The Deep End -Rock Titan's Rage- | The Encounter -Metal Charge- | The Falling | The Little Chef | The Lost Princess | The Star Fortress | The Victorious | Thermosphere | THERMOSPHERE -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Titanic Clash | Toy Box Jam | True Darkness | True Love | Unforgettable -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | VERUM REX | Winds of Fate | Winnie the Pooh -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Working Together -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) | You've Got a Friend in Me -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Zero Hour -The Chase- | Zero Hour -The Rescue-
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
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Cavern of Remembrance -KINGDOM HEARTS III Version- | Dismiss -Terra-Xehanort- | Forze dell'Oscurita -Xehanort- | Key of the Brave | L'Eminenza Oscura I -Ansem- | L'Impeto Oscuro -Young Xehanort- | L'Oscurità dell'Ignoto -Xemnas- | Link to All -Lights of Destiny- | Lord of the Castle -Marluxia- | Nachtflügel | The 13th Dilemma -Saïx- | The 13th Dilemma -Xigbar- | The 13th Struggle -Larxene- | The 13th Struggle -Luxord- | Vector to the Heavens -Xion-
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory
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A Whole New World | Circle Of Life | March Caprice for "Melody of Memory"
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Music introduced in Kingdom Hearts IV
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Reality in the Dark
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Music introduced in other games
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The World Ends with You -Solo Remix-
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TWISTER -KINGDOM REMIX-
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The World Ends with You -LIVE Remix-
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SOMEDAY -KINGDOM MIX JP Ver.-
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Music introduced in concerts and albums
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drammatica: The Very Best of Yoko Shimomura
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The 13th Anthology | Twinkle Twinkle Holidays
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Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts
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1st Mov. : Sora - Allegro con brio | 2nd Mov. : Kairi - Andante sostenuto | 3rd Mov. : Riku - Scherzo e Intermezzo | Concert Paraphrase on "Dearly Beloved" | Finale : Working Together - Allegro vivace | Missing You ~ Naminé | The 13th Side
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Piano Collections Kingdom Hearts Field & Battle
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A Very Small Wish - Monstrous Monstro | Medley of Conflict | Scherzo Caprice on a Theme of Never Land | Wonderland's Surprises
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Symphonic Fantasies
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Encore: Final Boss Suite | Fantasy I: Kingdom Hearts
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The World Ends with You 5th Anniversary Live -Crossover-
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CALLING -KINGDOM MIX- (Live Ver.) | SOMEDAY -KINGDOM MIX- (Live Ver.)
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SQ SWING
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Organization XIII ~ The 13th Struggle ~ Fragments of Sorrow ~ Dearly Beloved
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Kingdom Hearts Tribute Album
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A Piece of Peace ~ Under the Sea ~ Traverse Town | Bustin' Up on the Beach ~ Shrouding Dark Cloud ~ Guardando nel buio | Dearly Beloved ~ Hollow Bastion ~ Hand in Hand ~ Always on My Mind | Riku ~ Kairi ~ Sora
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Kingdom Hearts Concert -First Breath-
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Gearing Up ~ Shipmeisters' Shanty ~ Blast Off! | Journey of KINGDOM HEARTS | The Power of Darkness | The Unknown
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Kingdom Hearts Orchestra -World Tour-
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Daybreak Town: The Heart of χ | Heroes and Heroines: Characters' Medley | Lazy Afternoons ~ At Dusk, I Will Think of You... | Let Darkness Assemble: Final Boss Battle Medley | The World of KINGDOM HEARTS | Threats of the Land: KINGDOM HEARTS Battle Medley | Toy Box Medley
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Kingdom Hearts Orchestra -World of Tres-
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Diabolic Bash | Music from 358/2 Days | Music from Birth by Sleep | Music from Dream Drop Distance | Music from KINGDOM HEARTS | Music from KINGDOM HEARTS II | Music from Re: Chain of Memories | Music of Another Time | Overture to the Decisive Battle | Pretty Pretty Abilities from coded | Symphonic Suite: The Worlds of Tres
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Kingdom Hearts Concert -Second Breath-
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Happiest Medley of KINGDOM HEARTS | Heroes and Heroines: Characters' Medley -Second Breath Ver.- | Journey of the World of Tres | Scala ad Caelum~Edge of Existence
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Unnamed music tracks
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Kingdom Hearts V CAST | Kingdom Hearts III | Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory Other games
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