Patricia Serbousek

Fall 2016

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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

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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

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Fall 2016

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Voldemort:

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).

Bb – C# = minor third

C# - A = major third

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Fall 2016

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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

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Fall 2016

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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.

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Fall 2016

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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.

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Fall 2016

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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

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Fall 2016

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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)

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Fall 2016

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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

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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

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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

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Fall 2016

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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)

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Fall 2016

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The Chamber of Secrets:

Patricia Serbousek

Fall 2016

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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

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Patricia Serbousek

Fall 2016

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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

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Fall 2016

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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