“The Prince’s Tale” by Alexandre Desplat is from the final installment of the Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, and actually is a mix between two songs, “Severus and Lily’s Theme” and “Dumbledore’s Farewell.” After Severus Snape is murdered by Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter rushes to his side and gathers Snape’s memories in a vial so that he may view them later (it was Snape’s dying wish that Potter take his memories and view them). When Potter is finally able to watch Snape’s memories, “The Prince’s Tale” is the music that plays behind the scene as it unfolds. The first part of “The Prince’s Tale” is “Severus and Lily’s Theme,” which starts when Potter begins to view Snape’s memories. When the song first begins, there is no established tempo or meter, making it free-flowing. A little bit into the song,
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The harmony often was a variation of the melody that interlocked with the melody, giving the music a sense of completeness and incompleteness all at the same time. When there was a soloist playing, there was usually a section of instruments or a harp playing behind it with ostinato. The dynamics changed rarely, but when they did, they were major changes. The dynamic range went from pianissimo to fortissimo, and crescendos were much more common than decrescendos. Most of the time, when the music went from loud to soft, the music would just drop rather than flow down, which added more of a dramatic effect to the music and therefore the scene that went along with it.
“The Prince’s Tale” sought to express the deep sorrow felt by a man believed to be evil, who was actually on the good guy’s side the entire time, protecting a piece of the woman he loved for so many years. Without this music playing in the background of Snape’s memories, we would not have developed such an emotional connection to him or the events that
The harmony often was a variation of the melody that interlocked with the melody, giving the music a sense of completeness and incompleteness all at the same time. When there was a soloist playing, there was usually a section of instruments or a harp playing behind it with ostinato. The dynamics changed rarely, but when they did, they were major changes. The dynamic range went from pianissimo to fortissimo, and crescendos were much more common than decrescendos. Most of the time, when the music went from loud to soft, the music would just drop rather than flow down, which added more of a dramatic effect to the music and therefore the scene that went along with it.
“The Prince’s Tale” sought to express the deep sorrow felt by a man believed to be evil, who was actually on the good guy’s side the entire time, protecting a piece of the woman he loved for so many years. Without this music playing in the background of Snape’s memories, we would not have developed such an emotional connection to him or the events that