Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Piano Solos): Original Piano Solos

by John Williams

This spectacular souvenir folio comes loaded with full-color and black and white photos from the blockbuster Harry Potter film. Titles: * Aunt Marge's Waltz * Buckbeak's Flight * Double Trouble * Hagrid the Professor * Hedwig's Theme * The Snowball Fight * A Window to the Past * A Winter's Spell.

36 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2004

About the author

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John Towner Williams is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinema history. He has a very distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism, and atonal music with complex orchestration. He is best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and has received numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most nominated person, after Walt Disney, and is the oldest Oscar nominee in any category, at 91 years old.
Williams's early work as a film composer includes Valley of the Dolls (1967), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Images (1972), and The Long Goodbye (1973). He has collaborated with Spielberg since The Sugarland Express (1974), composing music for all but five of his feature films. He received five Academy Awards for Best Original Score for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Jaws (1975), Star Wars (1977), E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (1982), and Schindler's List (1993). Other memorable collaborations with Spielberg include Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), the Indiana Jones franchise (1981–2023), Jurassic Park (1993), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), War Horse (2011), Lincoln (2012), and The Fabelmans (2022). He also scored Superman (1978), the first two Home Alone films (1990–1992), and the first three Harry Potter films (2001–2004).
Williams has also composed numerous classical concertos and other works for orchestral ensembles and solo instruments. He served as the Boston Pops' principal conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is its laureate conductor. Other works by Williams include theme music for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, "The Mission" theme used by NBC News and Seven News in Australia, the television series Lost in Space and Land of the Giants, and the incidental music for the first season of Gilligan's Island. Williams announced but then rescinded his intention to retire from film score composing after the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in 2023.
He has received numerous honors, including the Kennedy Center Honor in 2004, the National Medal of the Arts in 2009, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2016. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998, the Hollywood Bowl's Hall of Fame in 2000, and the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2004. He has composed the score for nine of the top 25 highest-grossing films at the U.S. box office. In 2022, Williams was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II, "for services to film music". In 2005, the American Film Institute placed Williams's score to Star Wars first on its list AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores; his scores for Jaws and E. T. also made the list. The Library of Congress entered the Star Wars soundtrack into the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Reviews

[Natalie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good!

[Adhrit Pradeep · Rating 5 out of 5]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K.Rowling Genre Adventure rating 5/5

Harry Potter, wizard extraordinaire, starts his third year at Hogwarts, under the utmost precautions from the mad convict Sirius Black, who was supposed to have killed thirteen people with a single curse in broad daylight . He does everything he can to get out of this criminal’s grasp, but he lands right in the hands- or paws of this transforming wizard and finds out that the supposed criminal is his godfather- and also innocent.

I recommend this book to all!

[Yash Chourasia]

Good book

[mrs rhys · Rating 4 out of 5]

👌

[Chloe Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban
This is a book about Harry Potter in time trying to kill the Prisoner of Azkaban which turns out that he is the only family member he has. Serious Black (the prisoner of Azkaban)is a shapeshifter. He also turns into a wolf when its a full moon.
Professor Lupin helps Harry, however, that day is the day when theres a full moon. Harry, Hermoine, and Ron find out that he is a wolf as well. Sirious Black then realizes that Harry is his godson and helps Harry, Hermoine, and Ron. Then Harry and Sirious Black is reunited.
I couldnt relate to Harry at that moment because he accepted the fact that a 'stranger' that tried to kill him. I would not be able to trust anyone at that moment excpet for my best friends.
An important relationship in this book was the friendship because it shows that Harry actually has a family even though he doesn't. They show and allow Harry that he is part of their family. If harry didn't have friends like that he would of been dead by now.
One of the things the book book made me think about was how could Sirious Black forget that he was a Godfather of his Godson.
I loved and couldnt stop reading this book because it was so entertaining. this is because its not like the modern world. it has magic and wizards and witches in harry potter. That is amusing. I would definetly recommend this book to my friends to show them (make them visualize) a different life.

[Mukkatil Shiv]

I thought that the book was really interesting.In this book Harry was made to think that Sirius was the one who helped Lord Voldemort to kill Harry's parents.He looks to find Sirius and kill him.He also found out that Sirius killed a former Hogwarts student Peter Pettigrew.Hogwarts got a new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher.The teacher,Lupin,was a werewolf.Nobody in the class knew that except for Hermione Granger.In this book Hagrid gets Buckbeak which is a new kind of animal which was sentenced to death after attacking Malfoy.With the help of the time travelling locket which Harmione got from McGonagall,they used it and freed Buckbeak.In the final part,Harry found out through Lupin that Sirius was not the one who helped kill Harry's parents but it was Peter Pettigrew who was Ron's rat Scabbers.They tried to kill him but he escaped.Because of Snape Sirius had to face the Dementors.But using Buckbeak,Sirius and Buckbeak flew away far away so that they would not be seen or disturbed by anybody.This book is a thriller and i would recommend this to everybody.

[Haynes · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the reason because i like this book is because it keeps you entertained chapter by chapter and it gives u a sense of imagery with the mysteries going on :example:” This bird was huge it almost looked like it could touch the sky". This book I would recommend it to all Harry Potter fans.

[Dcasper787 · Rating 5 out of 5]

For some reason book number 3 is not here.

[Indri · Rating 5 out of 5]

nih petualangan yang ke 3 . ada sirius black . who is he ? find in this book .

[Cyndi · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved it!!

[Shawna]

this book was more about serious black and not voldemort.

[Ibra Deval]

its so wow man

[Katherine Coble]

Placeholder for reread of POA

[Katie]

Using as a placeholder since I read POA twice in 2016 and it will only show up once ;)

[Elaine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Difficulty level: Intermediate/Advanced