I think that GoF represented all of the aspects of HP. Romance, like in the Yule Ball. Adventure, like in the three tasks. Mystery, like what was Voldemort's plot for Harry. Tragedy, like Cedric's death. And all the other things, like friendship and humor, were all mixed in as well. That's why I personally like this movie the best. It's a culmination of all that's great with the series.
I think this entire film is overlooked by most of us, because it's not specific to the horcruxes yet it doesn't quite build the Harry Potter world. It's in the middle. But the ending is so crucial to the plot of the seven books and eight films. It's a strangely relaxing, lovely film to watch, because it has thatr sense of home that's unlike the other films. That sense of belonging.
This movie is my favourite of the eight films while Half Blood Prince is my favourite book and it's for all the reasons you said and also because I always love bittersweet endings than full on happy endings, way more impactful plus more representative of life because in life there are no happy endings just bittersweet adventures, but that's okay and by the end despite all the loss and pain they will be okay because they have each other, god I love this film! 😍😍🥰💖
This is right on the money... this film, more than any other, looks at what it would be like to be a comfortable student, right in the middle of one's seven years at HW. Somehow, the film manages to do this with the threat of death all around and the first actual death of a student (barring the depicted death in the flashback to Riddle's victim in CoS) in the whole series, with the awkwardness of a early romance, and while the school has the unusual situation of two other schools' visitors. It's an underappreciated gem, and I hope the upcoming games will manage to capture that spirit somehow.
My first HP film I ever saw in theaters back in 2005 when it came out I was 6 years old and it still bring back good old memories for me still in 2021 as a 22 year old young adult
the memories of when i saw it in theatres and i heard this epic music when i was in second grade and it being late at night and going to taco bell for dinner. i just think of the beginning of the song people getting up
0:00 - 2:36 This is one of my favourites! I'm the only one who realized this particular track sounding in the ending credits it's not part of the soundtrack's commercial album and got sad? It's like a hair-raising version of this "Hogwart's Hymn", and in my opinion it's one of the best songs from the franchise, it gives a perfect ending to this part, it sounds like crying for de death of Cedric and the return of the Dark Lord with his menace. Patrick Doyle is a genius and he should have composed for the rest of the movies. Either him of John Williams.
It is a real shame to see one of the most rousing tracks in the entire series only played in the end credits. Literally only really paid attention to it when I heard it while doing the studio tour and was wondering why on Earth I couldn't pinpoint such a memorable track to a specific scene. It's the perfect blend of the tragic and the triumphant and wouldn't have been out of place as the crowning track during the climax of the Deathly Hallows.
It's an incredible ending isn't it? My favourite movie in the franchise I love movies that end on a note you really don't know what's gonna happen next when I was little and watched in the cinema I was blown away then that classic Hedwig theme played followed by that amazing orchestral piece on the rest of it truly an incredible movie and a coming of age story 💖
1. John Willams 2. Patrick Doyle 3. Alexandre Desplat 4. Nicholas Hopper But they were all good in their different ways. Williams captured the 'magic' of Potter, whilst Hopper and Desplat had to capture the darkness of the Half Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows. Doyle's music is very moving, as you can hear in the 'Death Of Cedric' piece.
Patrick Doyle is a fkn genious... whenever I like a soundtrack I check it out and it always turns out to be another one of his masterpieces.. my fav remains the soundtrack of A Little Princess :')
How funny, I love the part from 0:40 right till there, because it builds up that strong suspended climaxes with all orchestral power, then slowly releasing it over so many different colors of harmony. It tears and releases like a roller coaster ride.
the credit music is always the best, and i don´t know why! Maybe cause you just have seen the fantastic movie and will the credit are rolling and you listen and think over what you just have seen.
14 of October Age: 19 I survived an entire Summer of job, first romance, a lot of self-fighting and dealing with mental problems.. But i want to see this in the future when i will come across this video again and tell myself that i made it, i am powerful all over again and that i don't deserve to feel bad or angry or confused. That the right things will come into place and that life goes on no matter what. My-Future-Self, i hope you see this and remember that life is a book full of exciting new begginings and pages and that sometimes letting go is the best option and sometimes we shouldn't be hard on ourselves and let our good sides overcome our bad sides. My-Future-Self, please, never give up. Be by your own side when hard times come, don't ever think of giving up. Did you see how many surprises you had where you least expected them? Who told you that there is not going to be a continuation of it? Ofcourse there will. Parts of you might die, like a snake that is letting its old skin fall and then a new one will grow. It won't immediately but over time, your new self will bloom over again. Trust yourself. I don't know how you will be in a few years, i don't know if you will still be with him or if you will move on. But i hope you know that we were born to re-live, to start over, new people, new experiences. I know i haven't reached that part yet but, dear-future-self, i know you will. I hope one day,dear-future-self, you see this and be like... YES.. i've believed in you old-self. You are not immature, you are at the perfect stage who is still growing up and discovering herself. You still have time. You have beautiful memories to build. Just look forward and do not look behind at...all... Have a beautiful day!
Having this music play while first walking into the room on the tour when Hogwarts is covered in snow really did make seeing it magical. Definitely my favourite piece of music from Harry Potter.
I just think this book had a wonderful plot. Everything was totally unexpected, like Mad Eye being out to kill Harry (Barty Crouch Jr.), all of the challenges, and of course, being teleported to the graveyard in the end for the duel against Voldemort. It was so good.
I agree. I hate it when people say Williams could not pull off the dark tone of the last few films, because he can pull of dark music like no one's business. All you need for affirmation is a listen to "War of the Worlds".
I agree, out of all of the pieces from all of the scores, he had the most that I liked. It might not have been the best adaptation out of the series (but neither was the fourth installment), but the music was absolutely brilliant, and emotional. I mean come on, it had Dumbledore's Farewell song on there, as well as In Noctem. It had a much darker theme to it, and I liked it better than any others. Alexandre Desplat would probably be my second favorite. Patrick Doyle would probably be my least.
MrsPaul Even his own writing for the Harry Potter series is quite dark. He would have been perfect to score the entire series, it's a shame that he couldn't return for the other movies.
I think he probably declined, as he was one of the most requested composers at the time. He scored 4 movies in 2005. He was the early 2000's Hans Zimmer.
I think, for me, the Goblet of Fire is my favourite out of all 8 movies because it has the most humour in it and many of the best morals and messages behind it. :) awesome music as well :D x
This brings tears to my eyes, remembering the happier moments of the trio's adventures and just generally missing the feeling of knowing that there would be another Potter film being released :\ JKR needs to do a sequel series with the new generation!
@Smael64 I think it was partly that, yes. In the film after this, the Order of the Pheonix, there is a conspiracy against Harry and Dumbledore because everyone thinks they're lying about Voldemort to get attention and to gain control over the Ministry. Yeah, I know... I am obsessed and have read EVERY book :D
+The Flying Gamers She's done with the main series. Still, she might do more stories based on that universe. :) There IS an 8th story but not sure if that'll ever be a book or just remain a play.
Eleanorminblack I know I might piss some people off, but Harry in Winter ain't got shit on Reunion of Friends, A Window to the Past, or Hedwig Flies (the music after the Mirror of Erised scene). By that I mean that the music in the later films (with a few exceptions, like Lily's Theme, Dumbledore's Farewell, and the Battle of Hogwarts themes, just to name a handful) don't sound as good as the first 3 films' score to me for some reason.
5:28 This piece of music is just very sad, Poor Old Cedric 😭. To the user of this video, can I borrow this piece of soundtrack, if you don’t mind me using it if I’m going to shoot a TV Series? 🙂
@Bradus101 Niclas Hooper's second (HBP) soundtrack was actually very well done. OOtP was just an epic fail that should have been done by Williams or Doyle, but HBP has a lot of great music.
My thoughts on the music in Goblet of Fire: It's beautiful. Really good to listen to on its own. But just one problem. None of the original themes written by John Williams appear, with the obvious exception of Hedwig's Theme. A problem I have with the score to the Harry Potter movies after Chamber of Secrets is that not much of Hedwig's Theme is used except those first 30 notes. And...I'm REALLY gonna piss some people off, maybe even Williams himself...I consider the following 30 notes AFTER the first 30 notes of Hedwig's Theme the Harry Potter theme. As much as I like Hedwig's Theme (and John Williams said the first notes are Harry's theme), I feel it is a bit overused by the later composers. Nimbus 2000/Mr. Longbottom Flies is barely used (mostly because of the Firebolt, but even then Prisoner ended with Nimbus 2000 playing in the Firebolt scene) and Harry's Wondrous World never plays after Chamber, with the exception of a cue from it at the end of Sorcerer's Stone/Deathly Hallows 2 (Leaving Hogwarts).Heck, Face of Voldemort never appears again after Chamber. And there is a track from Half-Blood Prince that is Hedwig's Theme with only the first 30 notes, then an entirely different song. So overall, the score tries to be different from the style from the first 2 films, but the use of Hedwig's Theme got a bit tedious.
As unfortunate as it is that thematic continuity wasn't maintained much in GoF, thematic development had already gotten pretty shaky prior to this score in CoS and PoA. CoS, while retaining a lot of ideas from the first film, started to have themes established for other things (such as the Philospher's Stone) reused for completely unrelated situations because William Ross took a lot of the scoring duties alongside John Williams (as he was busy juggling between CoS and Attack of the Clones). This, in effect, already started to present cracks in the musical narrative. Then Prisoner of Azkaban comes along, and despite John Williams still being kept around, pretty much ALL themes but the iconic Hedwig/main title leitmotif was COMPLETELY dumped in favour of a new direction. The friendship and family motifs are utterly swept off the board, with the latter's omission being particularly curious, given that it was effectively replaced by the Window to the Past leitmotif. Then GoB comes around just more or less just follows the same approach: Retain the main idea but build fresh ones for everything else. This would be the go-to approach for the later composers when working with their own material too, save for the final film indulging in a lot of referencing past material because it was the finale (although, it's unfortunate that Desplat didn't bother referencing Harry's theme or the newly revived Voldemort's theme from GoB).
Thank god for that. Re-using older musical tracks, especially ones that Williams wrote for previous movies… Patrick Doyle is better then this, same for Hooper and Desplat. Hedwig’s Theme is dropped for good, they should’ve just create a new Harry theme for each movie after Williams departed franchise. For example - Harry in Winter theme for Goblet as main Harry theme for this particular movie and so on unlit DH Part 2
5:21 Really defines the shift in the Harry Potter series. There’s no fun and games anymore since Voldemort is back. This music is heart wrenching.
I think that GoF represented all of the aspects of HP. Romance, like in the Yule Ball. Adventure, like in the three tasks. Mystery, like what was Voldemort's plot for Harry. Tragedy, like Cedric's death. And all the other things, like friendship and humor, were all mixed in as well.
That's why I personally like this movie the best. It's a culmination of all that's great with the series.
Absolutely!
I think this entire film is overlooked by most of us, because it's not specific to the horcruxes yet it doesn't quite build the Harry Potter world. It's in the middle. But the ending is so crucial to the plot of the seven books and eight films. It's a strangely relaxing, lovely film to watch, because it has thatr sense of home that's unlike the other films. That sense of belonging.
This movie is my favourite of the eight films while Half Blood Prince is my favourite book and it's for all the reasons you said and also because I always love bittersweet endings than full on happy endings, way more impactful plus more representative of life because in life there are no happy endings just bittersweet adventures, but that's okay and by the end despite all the loss and pain they will be okay because they have each other, god I love this film! 😍😍🥰💖
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@@youareconnectingshivamkumar Haha, thanks 😅 I was fifteen when I wrote that 😂
@@youareconnectingshivamkumar it's gonna be cool when some of these comments are like decades old someday.
This is right on the money... this film, more than any other, looks at what it would be like to be a comfortable student, right in the middle of one's seven years at HW. Somehow, the film manages to do this with the threat of death all around and the first actual death of a student (barring the depicted death in the flashback to Riddle's victim in CoS) in the whole series, with the awkwardness of a early romance, and while the school has the unusual situation of two other schools' visitors. It's an underappreciated gem, and I hope the upcoming games will manage to capture that spirit somehow.
i miss harry Potter
Endergirl25// Trinity shelby me too:-(
at least now we've got fantastic beasts
They may make Harry Potter and the cursed child into a movie the only problem is snape died in real life
@@StarWarsCritic and that movie is amazing♡♡♡
I read the cursed child book and I Hated it
This is my all favorite harry potter movie
The action
The drama
The visuals
And of the best of all the music
Prisoner of Azkaban and the Goblet of fire are the best soundtracks!
My first HP film I ever saw in theaters back in 2005 when it came out I was 6 years old and it still bring back good old memories for me still in 2021 as a 22 year old young adult
the memories of when i saw it in theatres and i heard this epic music when i was in second grade and it being late at night and going to taco bell for dinner. i just think of the beginning of the song people getting up
0:00 - 2:36 This is one of my favourites! I'm the only one who realized this particular track sounding in the ending credits it's not part of the soundtrack's commercial album and got sad? It's like a hair-raising version of this "Hogwart's Hymn", and in my opinion it's one of the best songs from the franchise, it gives a perfect ending to this part, it sounds like crying for de death of Cedric and the return of the Dark Lord with his menace. Patrick Doyle is a genius and he should have composed for the rest of the movies. Either him of John Williams.
It is a real shame to see one of the most rousing tracks in the entire series only played in the end credits. Literally only really paid attention to it when I heard it while doing the studio tour and was wondering why on Earth I couldn't pinpoint such a memorable track to a specific scene. It's the perfect blend of the tragic and the triumphant and wouldn't have been out of place as the crowning track during the climax of the Deathly Hallows.
Whats the name of the first track?
Cant stop listening to this piece ever since I heard it at the Harry Potter Studio Tour!!!
2:38 MY FAVOURITE PART
The most replayed part of the video so I guess you're not alone in that 😀
Same, it gets me really emotional.
one of the most beautiful soundtrack ever
John Williams is a legend, but you really have to hand it to Patrick Doyle. I wish that both of them did more for the later Harry Potter movies.
this song literally makes me cry. When I was little I had to turn off the movie before it got to the end song or else I would cry
It's an incredible ending isn't it? My favourite movie in the franchise I love movies that end on a note you really don't know what's gonna happen next when I was little and watched in the cinema I was blown away then that classic Hedwig theme played followed by that amazing orchestral piece on the rest of it truly an incredible movie and a coming of age story 💖
I think this was the best music in the series, just my opinion :)
I totally agree the music captivated the entire movie brilliant
1. John Willams
2. Patrick Doyle
3. Alexandre Desplat
4. Nicholas Hopper
But they were all good in their different ways. Williams captured the 'magic' of Potter, whilst Hopper and Desplat had to capture the darkness of the Half Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows. Doyle's music is very moving, as you can hear in the 'Death Of Cedric' piece.
Patrick Doyle is a fkn genious... whenever I like a soundtrack I check it out and it always turns out to be another one of his masterpieces.. my fav remains the soundtrack of A Little Princess :')
True true
This is the best musical arrangment for all the Harry Potter mobies. Simply beautiful, thank you Thisisforamber
why must the credits be so beautiful?
Great music
And the credits leave us with something hopeful despite Voldemort coming back
this is beautiful, every single second tells its own story. thats beautiful
I love it from 2:37 ! It's so beautiful, and sad. :-(
Trackname please.
Kevin MauZ It is "Harry in Winter". Download the full collection of Harry Potter soundtrack - it is awesome.
How funny, I love the part from 0:40 right till there, because it builds up that strong suspended climaxes with all orchestral power, then slowly releasing it over so many different colors of harmony. It tears and releases like a roller coaster ride.
So it's here, even I love it. It's beautiful.
Me too, my favourite song in Harry Potter!
masterpiece!!!!
thanx 4 makin this video i can't stop listenin 2 it it's beautiful, been lookin 4 it FOREVER
0:20 gets me every time Cedric please rip
absolutely stunning, i think this is teh best soundtrack of all harry potter's world, although the obliviate song is really amazing
Yes, music has this effect. This piece stands out. The first time, I heard it, I directly wanted to know who wrote it. Wonderfull
the credit music is always the best, and i don´t know why! Maybe cause you just have seen the fantastic movie and will the credit are rolling and you listen and think over what you just have seen.
I really love this music from Harry Potter. It's sad because it's basically the start where loved characters can die.
2:46 gets me every time. CEEEEDDDDDRRRRRRIIIIIIICCCCCCKKKKKKK
14 of October
Age: 19
I survived an entire Summer of job, first romance, a lot of self-fighting and dealing with mental problems.. But i want to see this in the future when i will come across this video again and tell myself that i made it, i am powerful all over again and that i don't deserve to feel bad or angry or confused. That the right things will come into place and that life goes on no matter what. My-Future-Self, i hope you see this and remember that life is a book full of exciting new begginings and pages and that sometimes letting go is the best option and sometimes we shouldn't be hard on ourselves and let our good sides overcome our bad sides. My-Future-Self, please, never give up. Be by your own side when hard times come, don't ever think of giving up. Did you see how many surprises you had where you least expected them? Who told you that there is not going to be a continuation of it? Ofcourse there will. Parts of you might die, like a snake that is letting its old skin fall and then a new one will grow. It won't immediately but over time, your new self will bloom over again. Trust yourself. I don't know how you will be in a few years, i don't know if you will still be with him or if you will move on. But i hope you know that we were born to re-live, to start over, new people, new experiences. I know i haven't reached that part yet but, dear-future-self, i know you will. I hope one day,dear-future-self, you see this and be like... YES.. i've believed in you old-self. You are not immature, you are at the perfect stage who is still growing up and discovering herself. You still have time. You have beautiful memories to build. Just look forward and do not look behind at...all...
Have a beautiful day!
Thank you
Thanks, dear Joanna💓
@@gustavoalegre4573 awwww you're welcome!
Having this music play while first walking into the room on the tour when Hogwarts is covered in snow really did make seeing it magical. Definitely my favourite piece of music from Harry Potter.
I just think this book had a wonderful plot. Everything was totally unexpected, like Mad Eye being out to kill Harry (Barty Crouch Jr.), all of the challenges, and of course, being teleported to the graveyard in the end for the duel against Voldemort. It was so good.
True true
The book is my favorite in the series
This one of my favourite Harry Potter film ever seen great story,great cast, and great Harry Potter adventure xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I was at first very sad that Patrick Doyle didn't do more of the "Harry Potter" movies. But at least it gave the series a variety of music.
This Music+Christmas=LOVE
I watch this whole movie to listen to the credits sometimes...
You can tell that each of the ending credits is getting deeper and darker.
Got tears in eyes
this harry potter by far has the best sound track in the world
I agree. I hate it when people say Williams could not pull off the dark tone of the last few films, because he can pull of dark music like no one's business. All you need for affirmation is a listen to "War of the Worlds".
I will always love the Harry Potter
The music is sped up because this is last hp movie when it’s all fun and happy then it starts getting dark in order of the phoenix
So beautiful makes you wanna shed a tear
My favourite part is everything up until 2:31....Oh and Neville's Waltz
Other than Armageddon, Titanic, Deep Impact, and other movies I watch, this is actually up on the top of my list for favorite movies
I agree, out of all of the pieces from all of the scores, he had the most that I liked. It might not have been the best adaptation out of the series (but neither was the fourth installment), but the music was absolutely brilliant, and emotional. I mean come on, it had Dumbledore's Farewell song on there, as well as In Noctem. It had a much darker theme to it, and I liked it better than any others. Alexandre Desplat would probably be my second favorite. Patrick Doyle would probably be my least.
I love this music
12 years ago 😢
oh wait my list is actually:
1. Nicholas Hooper
2: Alexandre Desplat
3. John Williams
4. Patrick Doyle
Williams can't write dark music? Hello, who wrote the Imperial March? Palpatine's Theme? The music from Star Wars had some really dark stuff.
Schindler's List? Jaws?
MrsPaul Even his own writing for the Harry Potter series is quite dark. He would have been perfect to score the entire series, it's a shame that he couldn't return for the other movies.
Natan Baessi Yeah, why was that? Did they not invite him or did he decline? Either way, such a shame.
I think he probably declined, as he was one of the most requested composers at the time. He scored 4 movies in 2005. He was the early 2000's Hans Zimmer.
Thank you, Harry Potter and JK Rowling, for being my childhood!
I love it from 2:42 ! It's so beautiful, and sad. :-(
love this song!!
I think, for me, the Goblet of Fire is my favourite out of all 8 movies because it has the most humour in it and many of the best morals and messages behind it. :) awesome music as well :D x
Damnn epic!! Best series everrr
My list
1: John Williams
2: Alexandre Desplat
3: Nicholas Hooper
4: Patrick Doyle
i love this ost
I WANT HARRY POTTER AGAIN!
From 6.48 my heart starts relaxing....can anyone tell which harmony is that?
And great music as well thank you xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(My) Ranking:
1: John Williams
2: Patrick Doyle
3: Alexandre Desplat
4: Nicholas Hooper
NO my list Is better
1: John Williams
2: Alexandre Desplat
3: Nicholas Hooper
4: Patrick Doyle
Warum sind die Filme so alt ich wünschte der 8 wäre nicht der letzte: (
I would like to have friends like these three
2:37 - 6:42 This part is perfect for strings, but I also wonder if it could be pulled off by brass players with good breath support.
Just got into Pottermore :D
Nostalgia...
This brings tears to my eyes, remembering the happier moments of the trio's adventures and just generally missing the feeling of knowing that there would be another Potter film being released :\ JKR needs to do a sequel series with the new generation!
Nostalgia
@Agusloquillo forgot Hanz zimmer?!?!?! well wherever... do what you want... :) i agree with you!!!
Sounds like a graduation song!
@Agusloquillo I think Nicholas Hooper comes before Alexandre Desplat but all of them were actually great!
the 0:12 give me a chill
Omg ! I like this song !
Da vontade de chorar Vey,que nostalgia
@Smael64 I think it was partly that, yes. In the film after this, the Order of the Pheonix, there is a conspiracy against Harry and Dumbledore because everyone thinks they're lying about Voldemort to get attention and to gain control over the Ministry. Yeah, I know... I am obsessed and have read EVERY book :D
o.O me encanta simplemente perfecto para la intro de Harry Potter que he construïdo Gracias tio/tia ^^
The best movie imo was probably hpb. Gof is still amazing though, the cedric scene always makes me cry.
Does anyone know the name of the soundtrack starting at 5:21 ? Thanks !
Death of Cedric
Can you please tell me what the song starting at 7:42 is please?
That's the B-section of Neville's Waltz.
never herd spting so beutiful hope rowling makes more books
+The Flying Gamers She's done with the main series. Still, she might do more stories based on that universe. :) There IS an 8th story but not sure if that'll ever be a book or just remain a play.
my favorite harry potter movie
Everything's going to change now, isn't it?
I love the piece before Cedric's music, Harry in the snow I think it's called
Eleanorminblack I know I might piss some people off, but Harry in Winter ain't got shit on Reunion of Friends, A Window to the Past, or Hedwig Flies (the music after the Mirror of Erised scene).
By that I mean that the music in the later films (with a few exceptions, like Lily's Theme, Dumbledore's Farewell, and the Battle of Hogwarts themes, just to name a handful) don't sound as good as the first 3 films' score to me for some reason.
Harry in Winter
Kevin MauZ Its called "Harry in Winter" :)
Thank you 007r8... you are the men of the hour!!!
Kevin MauZ :D:D Harry Potter sountracks are amazing :))
If you will :) Post this also in your description :)
What’s the song in the beginning that’s similar to “Hedwigs theme”? Before “Harry in Winter”.
2:38 is the best
2:38
Soundtrack name at 6:45 anyone?
Neville's Waltz
+These Amazing Places Thank you!
It's called "Harry in Winter". It's on the original album.
I imagine myself being among the Hogwarts students, with Hermione and myself as Ron himself while listening this music.
:o Minute 5:43 epic part!
5:28 This piece of music is just very sad, Poor Old Cedric 😭. To the user of this video, can I borrow this piece of soundtrack, if you don’t mind me using it if I’m going to shoot a TV Series? 🙂
@Bradus101 Niclas Hooper's second (HBP) soundtrack was actually very well done. OOtP was just an epic fail that should have been done by Williams or Doyle, but HBP has a lot of great music.
Great!!!!
My thoughts on the music in Goblet of Fire:
It's beautiful. Really good to listen to on its own. But just one problem. None of the original themes written by John Williams appear, with the obvious exception of Hedwig's Theme. A problem I have with the score to the Harry Potter movies after Chamber of Secrets is that not much of Hedwig's Theme is used except those first 30 notes. And...I'm REALLY gonna piss some people off, maybe even Williams himself...I consider the following 30 notes AFTER the first 30 notes of Hedwig's Theme the Harry Potter theme. As much as I like Hedwig's Theme (and John Williams said the first notes are Harry's theme), I feel it is a bit overused by the later composers. Nimbus 2000/Mr. Longbottom Flies is barely used (mostly because of the Firebolt, but even then Prisoner ended with Nimbus 2000 playing in the Firebolt scene) and Harry's Wondrous World never plays after Chamber, with the exception of a cue from it at the end of Sorcerer's Stone/Deathly Hallows 2 (Leaving Hogwarts).Heck, Face of Voldemort never appears again after Chamber. And there is a track from Half-Blood Prince that is Hedwig's Theme with only the first 30 notes, then an entirely different song.
So overall, the score tries to be different from the style from the first 2 films, but the use of Hedwig's Theme got a bit tedious.
As unfortunate as it is that thematic continuity wasn't maintained much in GoF, thematic development had already gotten pretty shaky prior to this score in CoS and PoA.
CoS, while retaining a lot of ideas from the first film, started to have themes established for other things (such as the Philospher's Stone) reused for completely unrelated situations because William Ross took a lot of the scoring duties alongside John Williams (as he was busy juggling between CoS and Attack of the Clones). This, in effect, already started to present cracks in the musical narrative.
Then Prisoner of Azkaban comes along, and despite John Williams still being kept around, pretty much ALL themes but the iconic Hedwig/main title leitmotif was COMPLETELY dumped in favour of a new direction. The friendship and family motifs are utterly swept off the board, with the latter's omission being particularly curious, given that it was effectively replaced by the Window to the Past leitmotif.
Then GoB comes around just more or less just follows the same approach: Retain the main idea but build fresh ones for everything else. This would be the go-to approach for the later composers when working with their own material too, save for the final film indulging in a lot of referencing past material because it was the finale (although, it's unfortunate that Desplat didn't bother referencing Harry's theme or the newly revived Voldemort's theme from GoB).
Thank god for that. Re-using older musical tracks, especially ones that Williams wrote for previous movies… Patrick Doyle is better then this, same for Hooper and Desplat. Hedwig’s Theme is dropped for good, they should’ve just create a new Harry theme for each movie after Williams departed franchise. For example - Harry in Winter theme for Goblet as main Harry theme for this particular movie and so on unlit DH Part 2
6:45 Neville’s Waltz. 🙂
Have you ever heard of the composer Barber adagio for strings? I can really recommend this.
@naki1613 the last one's gonna be AWESOME! Apparently, John Williams is coming back for the last one!
my ranking
1. Nicholas Hopper
2. John Williams
3. Alexandre Desplat
4. Patrick Doyle
Please listen to harry potter epic theme song which is the best