Talk:Harry Potter music

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Contents 1 Capital letter 2 A Window To The Past 3 Categorization 4 Unwarranted Hyperbole 5 Leitmotifs

[edit] Capital letter

Can anyone change the article title for Harry Potter music. It does not look professional with no capital letter to the P. Trimmo 19:54, 26 February 2006 (UTC).

Done. Dybeck 09:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Window To The Past

I just had a minor question that's really not of any relative importance. Here's the passage in question: "An poignant expansion of Family Portrait theme,..." I've listened to both tracks back to several times (for Family Portrait, I listened to the second half of track 10 on PoS album), and have not identified a correlation between the two melodic motifs, let alone that A Window To The Past is any expansion. Is there a reference somewhere that states this, or was this posted at the whim of a previous user? If there is no reference, can it be discussed at until some sort of consensus is reached? I found the passage in question interesting seeing as I, personally, never found the two passages related, so I was curious what anyone else thought? Watemon 09:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

I can't see them as closely related either. Maybe the tone is vaguely similar, but the two appear to be otherwise different. Several parts of A Window to the Past seem much more closely related to Double Trouble than the Family Portrait theme. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) (The Game) 12:22, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

In addition to being used whenever Harry is reminded of his parents in the third film, I also thought it was used as a more sentimental theme for Sirius Black since he represented the only family Harry has left.
Furthermore, I also think what's reference here is as "Sirius Black motif" should probably be relabeled as "The Dark Omen" motif. The motif used in the Knight Bus and Quidditch Third Year is used whenever the Grim is spotted, either Sirius in dog form, or its image in the clouds while playing quidditch. We certainly hear A Window To The Past more as a theme for Sirius, himself, than we hear what we have "Sirius Black motif". For instance when Sirius first talks with Harry after they've left the Whomping Willow and reminisces about his days at school and his hope to return to Hogwarts as a free man (a very touching scene), the music playing there, Window To The Past. Whenever he flies away with Buckbeak, the same music. I think it can be argued that A Window To The Past serves as a theme not only linking Harry to his parents, but also a theme for Sirius Black, who serves as the last remaining link to any family Harry has.
Just my opinion.
Watemon 23:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categorization

Tristan, why did you feel we should add a category 'Harry Potter music', that only contains this one page? Dybeck 09:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps later there will be pages like Hedwig's Theme, Voldemort's Theme, etc. Or we could add John Williams page in this category (?). Trimmo 17:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC).

Surely the logical order would be 'Composers' -> 'John Williams' -> 'Works of John Williams' -> 'Harry Potter music', or some such? I think that otherwise, we're just making categorizations to justify the new category, instead of them actually aiding navigation as they're designed to do. Dybeck 13:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unwarranted Hyperbole

I see no real basis for the statement "The music from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is probably one of the most adapted score in the history of movie music. The adaptations include a jazz version of the principal themes." The availability of a jazz version hardly makes this "one of the most adapted score [sic] in the history of movie music." 18:56, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I've removed the line. I think that anyone who wants to assert that something is "probably" true needs a little more evidence before it belongs on the wiki. Dybeck 14:32, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leitmotifs

I think those who add something to this article need to know what is a leitmotif. It is not a song like those of the Yule Ball and it is not a melody we hear just once in the movie. It is a recurent melodic idea associated with something of more importance: a character, an emotion, a place, etc. So, the "Knight Bus" is NOT a leitmotif even if it is associated with the bus because it is a "song" appearing only once in the movie. Trimmo 17:53, 2 may 2006 (UTC).