Personally, I probably belong to the minority that has really pleased that Williams will be replaced. Now really, what was so great about his soundtracks? I admit, the soundtrack to PoA was probably the best part of the film and has a lot saved it. When I listen to the soundtrack that time, I had wondered whether the composer was not replaced, but John Williams has returned to its origins only. Good decision! The soundtracks for part one and two were anything but a magical tour de force. Most of the melodies sound the same ("uniformity"), much has been taken from older scores. Yes, after 40 years of professional experience, it is hard to find new ideas, but one should even think objectively. An expensive Hollywood composer is not always the best thing for a movie, especially not for a British film an entirely different dynamics has as Hollywood movies (and unlike Hollywood also does not have every minute of the film music running in the background) , In the third part of Williams seemed to have finally buckled. Now to Pat Doyle. I myself know many of his scores, simply because I own a lot of movies that Kenneth Branagh has turned and Doyle is his master composer and I like British films. His melodies are always very convertible rich if Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Henry V, wasted effort) or Austen (sense & sensibility) or the modern Jane Austen (Bridget Jones's Diary) or "very British" films (Gosford Park, Calendar Girls), each soundtrack has its peculiarity. Doyle can be very pompous, that's true, but in a British style. It is not for nothing that obliged in many British films as a composer. He is playful and his melodies seem fresher, since not every piece sounds the same, neither as his melodies still like that of other composers ;-) He seems like used folk pieces in his scores (I need only recall the brilliant soundtrack for Much Ado about anything, where you can even hear him sing), also as in Goblet of Fire, it shows especially the Quidditch World Cup, the advent of other schools and even the Hogwart's March (as someone said, it sounds like a Bavarian band (consisting of five players)). And anyone who thinks Doyle music does not go into the ear, then I do not know. Especially the waltz and the Hogwart's March is very intuitive, and that's what it is, yes, a march must go into the ear. Who dares because today, bring something playful in a classic blockbuster Score? And for the people who have complained that Doyle has used the Hedwig's Theme (since it supposedly has no idea), nya, how great the outcry would have been if he did not the Harry Potter theme song could have used? Who has not noticed he used the theme one more time in the Foreign Visitors Arrive and there the melody is wonderful about the theme of the GoF soundtracks. It happens to be difficult to detach another for a composer, especially if a bad a priori opinion is against him? Not everything you do not know is bad, you would have to give him a chance only. The very idea Doyles incorporate waltz, I find great. In the movie / book one of the central themes is dancing (Yule Ball / Yule Ball), accordingly, the waltz. Just Harry and Neville, the two whose fate was so closely linked (the prophecy, see Volume five). And briefly to the skirt pieces. Of course includes sung songs (except in Myrtle's Move) in Harry Potter, if only because the typical Hollywood would be, but in this film already. It is, after all, in the book that a rock band occurs in ;-) Only that comes a song at the credits, is new, but judging by the text, it could have been on the Yule Ball / Christmas Ball can be sung. Of apart, that the text fits the basic theme of Harry Potter, love is the magic that never dies. So all in all, a wonderful soundtrack, many strings, new melodies, a March, folk-inspired melodies and a beautiful new hymn for Hogwarts (Hogwart's Hymn). Definitely my favorite soundtrack of the series. Playing tips: Quidditch World Cup, Neville's Waltz, Potter's Waltz, Hogwart's March (I love the scene in the movie ^^), the Goblet of Fire, Hogwart's Hymn, MagicWorks
