Musical Wizardry: John Williams’ ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’

This episode of ‘The Score Seeker’ puts the spotlight on John Williams’ masterful score to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first film in the Harry Potter franchise. For this dense and incredibly rich score, Williams composed no less than twelve main and secondary themes and motifs to carry the magical film forward. Join me as I discuss how the main leitmotifs are melodically related and how Williams created a new musical syntax for his score. Highlights include the Quidditch match and the original, unused music Williams wrote for the Diagon Alley sequence.