Hey Ben. I'm commenting to let you know your videos are amazing, and as a student composer, I have learn't so much from them!! I love how detailed your score reductions are and it is so interesting to read your observations/analysis! I can't wait to re-watch this video multiple times, paying extra close attention to all the details. I'm also wondering where you find the original scores? I've looked online, and all I can find are John Williams's main themes + pieces from suites and not much music from his actual films.
@@jacobcavendish9230 Hi Jacob, thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately there isn’t an archive or anything like that specifically for film scores, my advice would be to just keep looking around, educational sources like “academia” are a good place to start.
Love seeing more of the PoA score, it's easily one of my favorites! If you do the Whomping Willow fight one day (first half of the snowball fight track), you'll be my favorite forever 😂
Hey Ben, I love your content and am wondering if you take requests. If so, I'd love to see "Professor Umbridge" from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!
I wonder if the use of the wooden reed of the oboe is supposed to correlate with the wood of the Whomping Willow - the association between the woodwind and nature is something I've seen before but I've never really considered it in Williams' work.
@@patricksuiter It’s certainly possible, but I don’t remember that device being used in any other scenes with the willow. I think that the crucial point in this cue is just to cut through the somnambulant music of before. The oboe has that almost piercing quality, but as a solo still has gentleness, therefore ideal for that purpose.
@@BenSmithFilm fair enough. I think the oboe is a lonely voice that works well to represent Harry too - Williams uses it for that purpose in A.I. for David and in Angela’s Ashes for Frank and his mother. I do remember the oboe being used at the end of ‘Saving Buckbeak’ - the whomping willow is in shot but not in focus, so the correlation isn’t too strong there either.
@@patricksuiter Williams definitely does do that in Harry Potter too. At the end of year feast in the first film, Williams moves from the Celeste for Hermione to the Oboe for Ron and finally strings for Harry.
1:41 is insanely gorgeous!
Hey Ben. I'm commenting to let you know your videos are amazing, and as a student composer, I have learn't so much from them!! I love how detailed your score reductions are and it is so interesting to read your observations/analysis! I can't wait to re-watch this video multiple times, paying extra close attention to all the details. I'm also wondering where you find the original scores? I've looked online, and all I can find are John Williams's main themes + pieces from suites and not much music from his actual films.
@@jacobcavendish9230 Hi Jacob, thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately there isn’t an archive or anything like that specifically for film scores, my advice would be to just keep looking around, educational sources like “academia” are a good place to start.
Thank you so much for the work you put into making these videos and for sharing these scores, which otherwise no music student would have access to. ❤
Amazing work. Congrats!
Love seeing more of the PoA score, it's easily one of my favorites! If you do the Whomping Willow fight one day (first half of the snowball fight track), you'll be my favorite forever 😂
The most underrated HP Movie.
Hey Ben, I love your content and am wondering if you take requests. If so, I'd love to see "Professor Umbridge" from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!
@@pixelbrady I’m sure I can do that at some point.
I wonder if the use of the wooden reed of the oboe is supposed to correlate with the wood of the Whomping Willow - the association between the woodwind and nature is something I've seen before but I've never really considered it in Williams' work.
@@patricksuiter It’s certainly possible, but I don’t remember that device being used in any other scenes with the willow. I think that the crucial point in this cue is just to cut through the somnambulant music of before. The oboe has that almost piercing quality, but as a solo still has gentleness, therefore ideal for that purpose.
@@BenSmithFilm fair enough. I think the oboe is a lonely voice that works well to represent Harry too - Williams uses it for that purpose in A.I. for David and in Angela’s Ashes for Frank and his mother. I do remember the oboe being used at the end of ‘Saving Buckbeak’ - the whomping willow is in shot but not in focus, so the correlation isn’t too strong there either.
@@patricksuiter Williams definitely does do that in Harry Potter too. At the end of year feast in the first film, Williams moves from the Celeste for Hermione to the Oboe for Ron and finally strings for Harry.