Music
The soundtrack of the game was mostly composed by the members of the Gust Sound Team - Akira Tsuchiya, Ken Nakagawa and Daisuke Achiwa, who are best known for composing music for Gust's Atelier series. Haruka Shimotsuki, Takashige Inagaki and Akiko Shikata also contributed composition for several of the songs and Hymns in the game.
The music of the game was released across 3 albums: a 2-disc Original Soundtrack and two Hymmnos Concert CDs. The Hymmnos Concert CDs contained all the Hymns and songs which were absent from the OST.
In the story, the Reyvateils practice magic by “singing it". Hymns and Song Magic are powerful, they can be used for killing and healing. Therefore, unlike many other games, the songs form an integral part of the gameplay and story.
Each Reyvateil has their own singer (who is different from their voice actor in both Japanese and English versions) who performed their Songs and Hymns: Aurica: Haruka Shimotsuki, Misha: Akiko Shikata, Shurelia: Noriko Mitose and Claire: Yūko Ishibashi.
As well as the choral Hymns, the soundtrack features a variety of musical genres ranging from rock, electronica, industrial and rap to ethnic, acoustic, orchestral and folk styles.
Opening theme
- 謳う丘 - Harmonics EOLIA - / Singing Hills - Harmonics EOLIA - by Akiko Shikata
Insert Songs
- つがう命の声 / Voice of Joined Lives by Akiko Shikata
- そよかぜのうた / Song of the Gentle Breeze by Yuuko Ishibashi
- York of Love by Yuuko Ishibashi
Hymns
- EXEC_PURGER/.#AURICA extracting by Haruka Shimotsuki
- EXEC_LINKER/. by Haruka Shimotsuki
- EXEC_RE=NATION/. by Haruka Shimotsuki
- EXEC_SUSPEND/. by Noriko Mitose
- EXEC_RIG=VEDA/. by Noriko Mitose
- EXEC_PURGER/.#MISHA extracting by Akiko Shikata
- EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/. by Akiko Shikata
- EXEC_HARMONIOUS/. by Akiko Shikata
- EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/. by Noriko Mitose, Haruka Shimotsuki and Akiko Shikata
Ending themes
- EXEC_SUSPEND/. by Noriko Mitose (Phase 2 Bridge to Phase 3)
- EXEC_RE=NATION/. by Haruka Shimotsuki (Phase 3 Bad Ending)
- EXEC_PHANTASMAGORIA/. by Noriko Mitose, Haruka Shimotsuki and Akiko Shikata (Phase 3 Good Endings)
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