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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., ~Helen ~ <helanne at s...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Earlier I noticed that several people were accusing John Williams of
> "directly copying" Swan Lake in his Harry Potter score. WHAT THE????


Ah, at last...someone I can agree with. I too have been living with the 
soundtrack for a few weeks--I love it--and consider myself pretty familiar with 
the classics. I don't hear Swan Lake anywhere.

What I did hear was a little tiny shout-out to The Sorcerer's Apprentice during 
the Quidditch match music. Which is appropriate I think.  

On the whole, I really love this soundtrack, especially the "Harry's Wondrous 
World" suite [although I hate the title], the Hedwig music, the Change of 
Season music, the Hogwarts Forever horn thing, the short theme during the 
Mirror of Erised that comes back twisted during the final confrontation with 
Voldemort...

What I didn't care that much for were the Diagon Alley music [sorry guys--too 
Ren Faire for me] and most of the underscore during Platform 9-3/4 and 
elsewhere that sounded exactly like Phantom Menace. And I really, really 
HATE that the Voldemort music is just a variation on Darth Vader's theme. 
That is inexcusable.

The first time I saw the film, the music was waaaay too loud for me. It was 
not as obnoxious as the music in Phantom Menace [which, as music, I liked--I 
had that soundtrack too], but the HP music was just too loud.

On a second viewing in a different theater, however, the music didn't seem as 
loud.  I thought music and voices were on the same track, but with the exotic 
sound systems now available in cinemas who knows?

And I will admit that I am known among my friends as the movie music nut. 
After seeing Phantom Menace with them and complaining that the music was 
too loud and unnecessarily omnipresent in every scene, their response 
was--what music? :)

Ivis the elderly