Hedwig's Theme
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Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Hedwig’s Theme: Hedwig’s Theme (a): Tempo: Misterioso dotted quarter note equals 58 b.p.m. Meter: Simple triple Time Signature: 3/8 Key: E Minor Instrumentation: Melody: celeste Accompaniment: simple chordal/arpeggiated accompaniment Melody: Upper Brass Accompaniment: “sweeping” lines in the upper strings and winds, pizzicato lower strings Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Hedwig’s Theme (b): Tempo: Bright, Half note equals 80 b.p.m. Meter: Simple Duple Time Signature: 2/2 Key: E Minor Instrumentation: Melody: Reeds Accompaniment: homophonic harmonies, simple string/low woodwind interjections (descending scalar pattern), pizzicato strings. Melody: Upper Brass Accompaniment: woodwind and upper string flourishes Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Voldemort: Bb – C# = minor third C# - A = major third Voldemort (a): Tempo: Sinister, quarter note equals 69 b.p.m. Meter: Simple Quadruple Time Signature: 4/4 Key: Derived from a Phrygian Dominant Scale Instrumentation: Melody: Trumpets and Low brass Accompaniment: “spinning” lines in the woodwinds and lower strings. Melody: Chimes and low brass and clarinets Accompaniment: vocal (no words, just vocalization). Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Voldemort (b): Tempo: Sinister, quarter note equals 69 b.p.m Meter: Simple quadruple Time Signature: 4/4 Key: Chromatic Instrumentation: Melody: Low Brass Accompaniment: dissonant harmony sustained in trumpets, simple chordal accompaniment, low string and brass arpeggiated patterns Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Hagrid the Professor: Hagrid the Professor (a): Tempo: A la Militare, quarter note equals 112 b.p.m Meter: Simple duple Time Signature: 2/4 Key: A minor Instrumentation: Melody: Double reeds Simple counterpoint accompaniment in the brass. Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Hagrid the Professor (b): Tempo: Moderately, dotted quarter note equals 76 b.p.m. Meter: Compound duple Time Signature: 6/8 Key: Based on a Hungarian minor scale Instrumentation: Melody: Oboe Accompaniment: arpeggiated bass in lower woodwinds, triangle, clear texture. Melody: Recorder Accompaniment: arpeggiated bass, pizzicato strings. Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Fawkes the Phoenix: Fawkes the Phoenix: Tempo: Moderato, dotted quarter note equals 60 b.p.m. Meter: Compound duple Time Signature: 6/8 Key: A Major Instrumentation: Melody: Cellos and lower woodwinds Accompaniment: upper string scalar patterns, lower string pizzicato, oboe and trumpet interjections, low brass chordal accompaniment. Melody: Upper strings and brass Accompaniment: upper woodwind flourishes, pizzicato bass Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Diagon Alley: Diagon Alley: Tempo: Joyously Meter: Simple triple Time Signature: 3/4 Key: Based on a G Mixolydian Scale Instrumentation: Melody: Flutes, recorders Accompaniment: simple percussion (tambourine, finger cymbals, marimba), pizzicato strings (agogic accents) Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Harry’s Wondrous World: Harry’s Wondrous World (a): Tempo: Quarter note equals 108 b.p.m. Meter: Simple triple Time Signature: 3/4 Key: C Major Instrumentation: Melody: Upper strings Accompaniment: woodwind flourishes and runs Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Harry’s Wondrous World (b): Tempo: Quarter note equals 108 b.p.m. Meter: Simple triple Time Signature: 3/4 Key: C Major Instrumentation: Melody: Woodwinds and bells Accompaniment: simple homophonic harmonic accompaniment, harp flourishes Harry’s Wondrous World (c): Tempo: Quarter note equals 108 b.p.m. Meter: Simple triple Time Signature: 3/4 Key: C major Instrumentation: Melody: Upper strings and French horns Accompaniment: flute flourishes (variation of Hedwig’s theme), scalar strings. Horns and brass/ strings and woodwind scalar passages, triangle, woodwind flourishes Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Harry’s Wondrous World (d): Tempo: Victoriously Meter: Compound triple Time Signature: 9/8 Key: Modulating Instrumentation: Melody: Trumpets and French horns Accompaniment: woodwind flourishes, tambourine, low string runs Harry’s Wondrous World (e): Tempo: Broadly Meter: Compound quadruple Time Signature: 12/8 Key: Modulating Instrumentation: Melody: brass Accompaniment: woodwind flourishes, low brass and string chordal accompaniment and scalar passages, upper woodwind scalar passages Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Harry’s Wondrous World (f): Tempo: Broadly, dotted quarter note equals 60 b.p.m. Meter: Compound duple Time Signature: 6/8 Key: A minor Instrumentation: Melody: Monophony (full orchestra) Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music The Chamber of Secrets: Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music The Chamber of Secrets (a): Tempo: Misterioso, dotted quarter note equals 69 b.p.m. Meter: Compound quadruple Time Signature: 12/8 Key: Based on a Hungarian minor scale Instrumentation: Melody: Flutes and upper woodwinds Accompaniment: pulsations and trills in the strings, low voice scalar passage interjections. Melody: Trumpets Accompaniment: flute interjections, heavy percussion The Chamber of Secrets (b): Tempo: Misterioso, dotted quarter note equals 69 b.p.m. Meter: Compound quadruple Time Signature: 12/8 Key: Based on a Hungarian minor scale Instrumentation: Melody: Idiophone Accompaniment: woodwind interjection, low voices Melody: Oboe Accompaniment: low string scalar passages, low brass Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Leaving Hogwarts: Leaving Hogwarts: Tempo: Moderately slow, quarter note equals 92 b.p.m. Meter: Simple triple Time Signature: 3/4 Key: Leaving Hogwarts is a unique theme because it is not in major or minor keys, but rather fluctuates between the two (FOOTNOTES: Catherine P. Morgan, M.M. Good vs. Evil: the Role of the Soundtrack in Developing a Dichotomy in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, (2011), https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/Morgan_uncg_0154M_10678.pdf, accessed November 14, 2016. ). Instrumentation: Melody: Woodwinds Accompaniment: strings and idiophone Melody: Low brass and bells Accompaniment: upper strings, woodwinds, and brass scales Patricia Serbousek Fall 2016 music Buckbeak’s Flight: Buckbeak’s Flight: Tempo: Exultantly, half note equals 120 b.p.m. Meter: Simple triple Time Signature: 3/2 Key: Based on a Hirajoshi pentatonic scale Instrumentation: Melody: Strings Accompaniment: flute flourishes and runs (double tonguing), sweeping strings, brass (double tonguing), percussion, harp flourishes, constant drive created by moto perpetuo .