The Music of Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep

This video explores various musical connections within the original soundtrack for Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. This story carries with it the burden of expanding Nomura’s universe while staying true to traditions established from the previous games. But with the help of Sekito and Ishimoto, Shimomura was able to musically provide interesting resolutions to the on-screen events by making use of motives from previous games to ground her tracks to the foundation of this game’s narrative. Her work explored many new avenues of instrumentation while still adding to her network of storied melodies meaningfully. Table of Contents: 00:00 Introduction 01:15 BBS Track Categorization 01:41 Field Categorizations 04:04 Battle Categorizations 06:40 Event Categorizations 09:42 Character & Misc Categorizations 10:25 BBS Connection Diagram 10:48 Evolutionary Tracks 15:42 Adventure group 17:49 Future Masters group 18:58 Keyblade Graveyard group 21:25 The Key group 23:13 Ven/