The Music of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

In this video, we dive into Yoko Shimomura's score for Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (CoM) by exploring notated examples that show relevant motivic links to other tracks within CoM. We also take a look into how these tracks, as well as several of the pieces they're based upon, help to setup the musical introduction of the primary antagonists in the series: Organization XIII. Table of Contents: 0:00 Introduction 2:02 CoM Connection Diagram 2:36 Orphan themes 4:12 "Memories in Pieces" 5:55 Namine group 7:04 Always On My Mind group 7:55 Heartless group 9:01 Villain group 10:04 Castle Oblivion group 11:35 Ansem group 13:15 Secrets group 17:11 Organization XIII group 19:09 Matters of the Heart group 22:29 Conclusion — ~Resources~ Read-along script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N... Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... Charts: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1pL4... — ~Donate / Ko-fi~ I very much appreciate coffee donations if you enjoyed the presentation! https://ko-fi.com/davidrussell — Thank you to KH-Vids for being a wonderful resource for extracting game footage, and to the KH community for being crazy fun to talk about this kind of stuff with. Also to Brenden Seng for vectorizing the pointer finger you can see throughout the video! Get in touch with me: https://linktr.ee/davidrussell323