There may be some friends feel strange for
me to classify the “Harry Potter” as classic, but don’t forget, the first film
of this series – “harry potter and the philosopher's stone” had been released
for 12 years, least of the novel had been published even earlier than movie.
Although there are different kind of reviews of the series, its soundtracks had
brought a lot of shock to us.
The harry potter soundtrack created by John
Williams, who also created the lots of impressive movie scores for “Star Wars”,
“Schindler’s list”, “Jurassic park” and so on. His writing style especially
suit this grand narration film. Let’s enjoy his most representative soundtrack
of the Harry potter series movie.
This music is not really complicated, it
combined by two topics. The first theme was Hedwig’s theme-Harry Potter’s
beloved pet, a beautiful snowy owl which actually more than a pet, if you are a
fan of HP series, you know what I mean. The appearance of Hedwig was a little
fresh and slightly mysterious, played by the clockwork. Then appearance with
the quick string and the cello bass, brought different flavors to the same
theme. This melody fits well with Hedwig’s image- beautiful, graceful, and
proud.
The second part of music is the Hogwarts
theme, the wizarding school of the magic world and the “home” to little Harry.
This subject tonality is very changeable, extremely unstable, made up a scene
of the Hogwarts school with the ceiling, the moveable staircases, the ghost
cross from your body. The melody was led by the clarinet, then played by a
small shift. After a short variation, the band played a huge “Hogwarts theme”
melody, which was very impressive!
After two themes is “ported”, two themes
constantly interweave, tonal instability to reach perfection, from the moment
on, also make the tension, this is John Williams “big scene music” idiomatic
patterns, effect is very good.
“Harry Potter” has left a magical dream in
many people’s childhood, what is the most touching scene to you?
Wendi Xie
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