harry potter and the deathly hallows 1 score

The idea was to find a theme that had a sense of sorrow, loss of innocence, but still with a propelling motor, and also a sense of wide sound to deliver an epic kind of feeling to it. That’s the piece around which the whole score was built. Actually this piece is the most important piece. Now “Obliviate”, it is the seeds of the score. Because of the nature of the film, this theme, didn’t match. But unfortunately, the movie was repelling, it was not. And if I may add to that statement that I loved the “Hedwig’s Theme” and I was actually impatient to write a version of the theme. There’s not any combinations of notes that sound like “Hedwig’s Theme”. It’s completely away from the “Hedwig’s Theme”. Well, first of all it, has nothing to do with “Hedwig’s Theme”. Could you talk about that track, and how you came up with it? It’s somewhat of a much darker version to “Hedwig’s Theme” in a sense that the track has a sense of flight to it. “Obliviate” seems to be a reoccurring theme in the film.

I just record ’cause I know I’m going to use a rhythm pattern that I’m going to use and reuse and display here and there. So it’s really a complex process, it’s not just one theme, it’s many, many ideas and themes. Except that at the end it did not happen because there was not enough room for the scene to be in the version that I’d written. ‘Cause at the same time I was also playing around with “Hedwig’s Theme”, making many questions of how I could twist the neck of this theme and make it different and bring it into my own little world of music. But I can’t say that one was leading the others. These three were the three I started to play around with, which means trying different ideas.

One of the ideas was the opening titles, the theme of “Obliviation”, and most of the “Ministry of Magic”.

And, and it’s many of them, it’s not just one. I take a lot of notes on a music pad, on a music writing little book. I worked many bits and pieces, that’s always the way I build my soundtracks.

What was the first piece of music or melody that you wrote for this film and how did the rest of the music evolve from that idea? ‘ Harry Potter has become such a huge, global thing that when I was approached, when I was asked to write the music for that I was really thrilled.’

Harry potter and the deathly hallows 1 score