Excalibur (film) - Soundtrack

Soundtrack

The soundtrack consists of original music composed by Trevor Jones, with the inclusion of classical pieces from Orff's Carmina Burana, as well as from Wagner's Ring and Tristan und Isolde operas.

• Part of Siegfried's Funeral March from Götterdämmerung was used as the main theme.
• Orff's "O Fortuna" is heard during two scenes when Arthur and his knights ride out to do battle.
• The theme between Lancelot and Guenevere is the prelude to Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", a piece about the romance of Sir Tristram and Iseult, another pair of lovers from the Arthurian tales.
• The theme of Perceval and the Grail is the prelude to Wagner's "Parsifal".