The Harry Potter Opera Cycle
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This is a portion of a theme that first appears in the sixth opera of the cycle, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and develops in the seventh opera, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I used Finale 2008 for scoring and audio output, and I'm sorry to say that because Finale doesn't like Vista, I wasn't able to add articulations, so the resulting audio sample is a touch vertical.

The ground bass represents a static set of characters and situations, while the oboe (voice) is a dynamic and sympathetic character (not telling which!). The theme occurs at crises in both operas and develops texture with the maturity of the characters and complexity of situations. I hope to move it into atonality in the seventh opera; Im still playing with the tonality of Deathly Hallows, which is certainly heldic.

Tiffany Moon, composer
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