A full score reduction of the werewolf transformation scene and the dementor attack from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, written of course by John Williams.
PDF Link for your perusal: https://mega.nz/folder/YSxWQYDZ#TG3dFG7B_3Ti8JDGbWORgg
This has certainly been the hardest project I’ve worked on on this channel before, with an incredible amount of film edits, some really advanced harmony combined with complex atonal writing, along with some more involved notation at many points. I’ve tried my best to give justice to this cue in my analysis, I hope you benefit from it/enjoy it. Thanks so much for watching.
I want to offer a personal thanks to @DominicSewellMusic, @DavidMcCaulley and Wendy Suiter for some help discussing formatting ideas and some of the finer aspects of the atonal analysis. Dom has a channel where he is currently breaking down the Star Wars scores in a huge amount of detail, which is an invaluable resource, and you’ll all already know that David’s channel is a gold mine.
Some other links I mentioned:
– Jango Fett Fight Reduction: https://youtu.be/qrfOK_fxXJU
– Dominic Sewell’s post regarding ‘sonority’: https://www.jwfan.com/forums/index.php?/topic/35205-some-thoughts-on-john-williamss-atonal-moments-with-reference-to-the-empire-strikes-back/
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Thanks again for watching, have a wonderful day 🙂
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My apologies that the text and score had to be so small in some parts of this. I spent a lot of time reformatting and resizing to try and avoid too much confusion, but if you're having trouble reading it all and you want to (ie you're as crazy as me), I recommend taking a look at the PDF link in the description. 🙂 Sorry again and thanks for watching.
In my opinion Williams best Score of the 21st Century. I love that your doing Azkaban, as there is not that much in terms of reductions and scores on Azkaban.
Great work!! I really love the music for this film. It does such a phenomenal job of setting the darker tone. I remember being so fascinated with the "clusters" at the end when I first heard this. Cool to see it written out.
cool, thanks for doing this! there are many interesting pieces in prisoner, i also love the part from dumbledores speech and then onward, with the harpsichord.
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Tremendous work! Thanks so much. I love the textures Williams creates in this cue, particularly the tonal dissonances when the patronus is produced. Hoping you can do some more from Azkaban, my personal favourite score of all time! Thanks again 🙂
Thank you so much for doing these cues! There is so much material here, and you've broken it down really well. His score for this film is one of my absolute favorites, and I think these two tracks are some of Williams' best "horror" sounds. The string/brass/choir effects during the intro of Dementors Converge are just incredible. And the way it all builds to that climax during the Patronus scene? chef's kiss
I agree with the others: do more from this score, please!
Woah, this is so amazing, both the music and this video! Can I ask you where one can find the complete original orchestral score to this film? I was only able to find suites with 4-5 pieces