Kingdom of Heaven (soundtrack) - Additional Music and Lyrics

Additional Music and Lyrics

The film also includes several other notable contemporary and historical listings not included on the released soundtrack:

• - The plucked string instrument during the first few seconds of the film as the titles appear. Named thus despite the fact that the film states the year is 1184.
• Vide Cor Meum – The operatic aria during King Baldwin IV's funeral, originally composed for the soundtrack of the film Hannibal.
• Ave Regina cælorum – The first stanza of this twelfth-century antiphon is used on the soundtrack in the track "Burning the Past".
• Raimon de Miraval, Chansoneta farai Vencut – Occitan troubadour lyric of the early thirteenth century, used in the closing scene, and in the Director's Cut, in the flashback with Balian and his wife, performed by Ensemble Convivencia.
• Guiot de Dijon, Chanterai por mon corage – French trouvère lyric from the time of the Third Crusade, used in the Director's Cut for Godfrey's flashback as he remembers Balian's mother.
• Valhalla/Viking Victory – Music used during the "knighting" scene before the siege, originally composed for the soundtrack of the film "The 13th Warrior" by Jerry Goldsmith.
• Passion Chorale – Music played during Raynald's death (specifically, an excerpt from St. Matthew's Passion, BWV 240, by J.S. Bach "Befiehl du deine Wege", performed by the Hilliard Ensemble and Christoph Poppen and recorded for the album "Morimur", track 8 – Choral: Befiehl Du Deine Wege).
• Epitaph – A Nasheed-style song in Arabic by Luis Delgado from the Album Sueno de al-Zaqqaq ("The Dream of al-Zaqqaq"), is played in the scene in which Saladin enters the city.
• Bibbe Leydi – This song is performed by Baaba Maal & Masour Seck, used in the Directors's Cut, song played while Balian let a toy boat floating along the water down the log in Ibelin.
• Rannanu (Sing with Joy) by the Savae San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble – Plays while the crusader army marches through the desert before the battle of Hattin.
• Saa Magni (Death is Terrible) by Oumou Sangare – Plays during the sex scene between Balian and Sibylla.