Nicholas Hooper was given a double edged sword when he got the assignment to score "Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix". On one hand it's a once in a lifetime chance for any composer to come from working on small television projects to working on a major motion picture which will undoubtedly be a success at the box office, and having your work exposed to a wider audience. Of course there's also the other side of the blade which can cause some serious injury, having to follow in the footsteps of John Williams and Patrick Doyle isn't an easy task, and Doyle did receive some harsh criticisms from fans for not integrating enough of Williams' theme into his score (although I must admit Doyle's score is my favorite). Hooper's score for "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was not considered to be the highest point for the music in the franchise of Harry Potter, and I found it to be a rather adequate piece work, and it did pale in comparison to Doyle's and Williams' material.
Hooper returns for the following film "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" and in doing so he creates a much darker score which does resemble the turn that the franchise has been taking since the third installment. Hooper once again disregards most of what Doyle and Williams had done previously and reinstates most of his own material from the previous score such as the Weasley's theme (which sounds very out of place in "The Order of the Phoenix" and "The Half-Blood Prince") . John Williams very popular "Hedwig" theme makes two appearances, but they're brief, the first is in "Opening" but it's barely noticeable, and "Ginny". The total amount of time the "Hedwig" theme is given is probably less than 20 twenty seconds when you combine both tracks, which is a shame I think. The other theme that's from John Williams is the Quidditch fanfare, but Hooper injects plenty of his own material into it that it muddles the theme entirely in my opinion. Hooper does create something new for the score and it is reprised in different forms through out the score "In Noctem" (of the night) it's a lovely little Latin choir piece. Dumbledores Speech and Dumbledores Foreboding" are two of the tracks where the lovely peice makes its reprisals, but the choir is tonned down a bit in those two tracks and the piano melody shines through much more than it does in the track "In Noctem", it also appears in the track "Journey To The Cave", but it's barely noticeable in my opinion.
There's a depressing theme created for the character Malfoy which is titled "Malfoy's Mission" it uses synthesizers to enhance the already mournfully sounding track (a highlight of the score). The romance elements in the score are handled well, but it mostly just adds to the score's monotone feel, Harry and Hermione and When Ginny Kissed Harry sound nice from the outset but don't bring any real emotion to the table. They sound as if their scored by a harp, and an aucustic guitar, which would sound promising but not much is done with them that it really fails to impress. A good chunk of the score just chugs along, on what seems to be a monochrome of color, never really changing, but only briefly will things brighten up, but they'll quickly fade back into grey. The more exciting portions of the album occur in the final couple of tracks, "The Drink of Despair" uses synthesizers to enhance the eerie whispers presneted in the track but they do tend to become annoying during their breif appearance. "Inferi in the Firestorm" is a track (which is the highlight in the album I think), it's unsettling from the start and hints at impending doom, and has a thrilling climax which eventually leads into "The Killing of Dumbledore" which is similar to most of the album, not much that's impressive about it-it provides moments of dissonance on string instruments to encite great fright, but again it doesn't seem to achieve it's goal. "Dumbledore's Farewell" is another mournful sounding piece and it's enourmously effective even though the cello solo, and overbearing sound of the orchestra does seem a bit cliche, it works quite well.
Most of the score doesn't make much noise, and it seems as if Nicholas Hooper is taking a very conservative approach to the franchise. I do believe the album is a huge disappointment and more was expected for the franchise of Harry Potter, and if anything Hooper's efforts just highlight how impressive John Williams', and Patrick Doyle's contributions to the franchise were. Hooper's score isn't necessarily bad, but it does nothing to really distinguish itself from the work created by Doyle and Williams. There's some good music to be heard in the score to "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" but there's not enough of it to consider this a great album or even a good one, it's just a bland steak which unfortunately doesn't have enough seasoning to make it taste great, plenty of substance, but not enough style.
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