We keep your data private and do not share it with any third parties. But there is a G#, it’s just written as Ab in my example (bar 12 in my second example) because it’s part of an F minor chord.
To me they sound entirely different and I wouldn’t say they are in any way connected. Have your say...In a broad sense, I think he's absolutely right.
But at the same time, this triple time creates a lightness and buoyancy in the music, a floating quality that captures the feeling of taking to the air, as wizards so often do.The B section of Hedwig’s Theme shares many of the musical features of the A section: it is exactly the same 16-bar length, it retains the same orchestration in the celeste, and it closes with virtually the same 6-bar passage.
But when Williams restates the whole 8 bars of a theme, he usually keeps the notes the same, so this is unusual that way. Williams is one of my all-time favourites.I just found this analysis and commentary. May be will analyze these two works on the subject of plagiarism?Thanks, KL. For example, the harmonies at the start of bars 20 and 22 are from a family of chords known as “augmented sixths”, which tend to have an unearthly sound when paired with a sustained tonic note (pedal point) in the bass, as here. This is very useful when music follows a very typical (and predictable) set of characteristics.
The musical terminology is too advanced for me, but I just wanted to say good work on these, Ludwig! These same intervals are also heard at the end of the A section in bars 13-15, now with an extra intervening note:Both of the A section’s phrases therefore end with these strange intervals, which helps impart an air of mystery to the theme.Another note foreign to E minor that Williams introduces is A#, the raised fourth scale degree (#4), which first appears in the melody in bar 13.
I could understand about not having 8 horn players or more than 4 winds, etc. The reason we use roman numerals is so we can take pieces in various keys, and "genericize" them so we can see any patterns. With the previous D# the F takes the minor third we would have had and “squashes” it into a diminished third, and with the following B it “squashes” a perfect fifth into a diminished fifth (or tritone). We began to dismember the great masters. I was searching around the web for other analyses of Hedwig's Theme and came across a thread in a music theory forum. But in Doyle’s version, it’s changed to a more normal scale-degree 5 (a semitone up). Have you noticed that Hedwig’s theme was altered starting with the fourth film? Instead, Hedwig’s Theme seems to represent the world of wizards and magic more generally. Saint-Saëns’ famous piece, “Aquarium” from And even in film, in the well known theme for “Harmonica” from I would also point out that the melody of the A section uses all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, and so in an abstract way could indicate that wizards and witches can inhabit both the non-magical world of muggles (or non-magical folk, as represented by a “normal” E minor scale) and the supernatural world of magic (as represented by all the other notes outside the E minor scale).Many of Williams’ themes for blockbuster action films are marches, which are always set in a two- or four-beat meter.
In the moderate waltz-like tempo of the theme, the three-beat meter evokes a feeling of elegance and grace that befits a wizard’s ability to get out of many jams quickly and easily with, for instance, the simple casting of a spell. I look forward to reading the rest of your analyses. It’s good to have others’ ears and eyes spot new things!I loved reading this. The last repetition of the A section continues this rushing figure in the strings but now sounds the melody more powerfully in the French horns. The most famous owl call is the hoot of great horned owl, consisting of two short calls and one long. There are "identifiable chords". You mean Secret of the Blue Room. Sometimes it's useful to analyze the CPP-like aspects in CPP terms, and simply note the "exceptions". The notion of a "traditional" key is gone so it seems chords are being chosen for some other reason - any informative analysis would tell us where these chords are coming from (can we ask John? (John Williams scored the first three films, but not the later ones. I believe that “Hedwige Theme” is plagiarism.
Bach, Verdi, Bizet, Tschaikovsky and Wagner — everything that wasn’t protected from our pilfering by copyright.”So the Tchaikovsky in Blue Room is likely a kind of sustaining of an earlier standard at a time when that standard was in flux and over the next few years to turn confidently towards the original score.HTML tags allowed in your comment:
Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. © Mark Richards. Since the dominant is the fifth note of the scale, it is, in a sense, “high up” from the “ground” tonic note with which the theme began. I had noticed the note in the A section that was changed (a D# becomes D natural), but I had not noticed the note in the B section, where a B is subtly chnaged to C. So thank you! In this audio clip, A is heard from the start, B begins at 0:17, A appears again at 0:45, B at 1:01, and A once more at 1:18:Probably the most distinctive feature of the first A section is its orchestration. I am excited to go through all these posts and read them. Methinks so. )From the fourth film on, the F natural in the sixth measure was changed to an F-sharp, which spoils the melody for me.Hi Em. But at the same time, the celeste is associated with the imaginative world of children primarily through the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Harmonically, Hedwig’s Theme is essentially in the key of E minor, but the chord progressions are anything but typical for a minor key. Personally, I have a hard time hearing Williams’ Harry Potter theme is a rehash of Swan Lake. Finally, the third last note in the original is A#, an appropriately quirky note that again suggests mystery (raised 4 of the scale).
Also, what was Ab in the original theme now becomes the equivalent of A-natural, again rendering it the normal note found in the scale, so a bit less strange and mysterious. JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. It is often named as