Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (soundtrack)

The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince soundtrack is the soundtrack of the 2009 film of the same title based on the book by J. K. Rowling. Nicholas Hooper composed the film's score, who also composed the soundtrack for the previous Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Hooper followed John Williams, who scored the first three films and Patrick Doyle who did the fourth. Hooper collaborated with the film director David Yates in other film projects. The soundtrack was released on 14 July, 2009.

Tracklist

 * 1) "Opening" - 2:53
 * 2) "In Noctem" - 2:00
 * 3) "The Story Begins" - 2:05
 * 4) "Ginny" - 1:30
 * 5) "Snape & the Unbreakable Vow" - 2:50
 * 6) "Wizard Wheezes" - 1:42
 * 7) "Speech" - 1:31
 * 8) "Living Death" - 1:55
 * 9) "Into the Pensieve" - 1:45
 * 10) "The Book" - 1:44
 * 11) "Ron's Victory" - 1:44
 * 12) "Harry & Hermione" - 2:52
 * 13) "School!" - 1:05
 * 14) "Malfoy's Mission" - 2:53
 * 15) "The Slug Party" - 2:11
 * 16) "Into the Rushes" - 2:33
 * 17) "Farewell Aragog" - 2:08
 * 18) "Dumbledore's Foreboding" - 1:18
 * 19) "Of Love & War" - 1:17
 * 20) "When Ginny Kissed Harry" - 2:38
 * 21) "Slughorn's Confession" - 3:33
 * 22) "Journey to the Cave" - 3:08
 * 23) "The Drink of Despair" - 2:44
 * 24) "Inferi in the Firestorm" - 1:53
 * 25) "The Killing of Dumbledore" - 3:34
 * 26) "Dumbledore's Farewell" - 2:22
 * 27) "The Friends" - 2:00
 * 28) "The Weasley Stomp" - 2:51

Groups and individuals behind the soundtrack

 * Music Conducted by Nicholas Hooper and Alastair King.
 * Music Performed by The Chamber Orchestra of London.
 * Music recorded and mixed by Peter Cobbin at Abbey Road Studios.
 * Sam Okell - Assistant music mixer.
 * Score Produced by Darrell Alexander.
 * Nicole Wilson - Assistant Music Supervisor.
 * Marcia Crayford - Orchestra Leader.
 * Score Orchestrated by Jeff Atmajian, Alastair King, Geoff Alexander, Simon Whiteside and Daryl Griffith.
 * RSVP Voices and the School Choir of Queen's College, Oxford are the Choirs.
 * Allan Jenkins - Supervising Music Editor
 * Robert Houston - Music Editor
 * Robert Sneddon - Music Copying and Librarians
 * David Hage - Music Copying and Librarians
 * Ian Livingstone - Midi Programming
 * Cinesite - Scanning and Recording
 * Simon Burchell - Visual Effects Department Compositor.
 * Titles by Foreign Office.

Behind the scenes

 * A sample of all the official soundtracks, can be heard by visiting the film's official website harrypotter.warnerbros.com.
 * There is also a preview the soundtracks through Virgin Mobile website, Select a phone, then type "Harry Potter" in the search box, and will get a selection of 14 HBP soundtrack previews.
 * The soundtrack "Wizard Wheezes" was never used in the film, instead the film makers decided to use the Original Soundtrack from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix entitled "Fireworks" as background music for the sequences of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.
 * Also, a part of the soundtrack from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix entitled Dumbledore's Army is used for the Gryffindor's Quidditch Try-out sequence.
 * A part of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince soundtrack "The Book" can be heard in a deleted scene in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in which Dolores Umbridge is interviewing Prof. Trelawney during a Divination class.
 * The Half-Blood Prince soundtrack has been nominated at the 52nd Annual Grammys in the "Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media" category.
 * The soundtrack "Of Love and War" was never used in the film, but acted as a bonus on the soundtrack album.
 * A large portion of the track "Dumbledore's Farewell" later appeared in Alexandre Desplat's score for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, heard during Harry Potter's viewing of Severus Snape's memories in the pensieve.
 * The soundtrack when Dumbledore is killed, for unknown reasons, is not included in the soundtrack album. It is possible that the editors thought the piece was too dark, or they simply ran out of space. "The Killing of Dumbledore" only contains the music before he is killed.