Selected Themes from the Motion Picture Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Flute : Solo, Duet, Trio

by John Williams, Victor López

This instrumental series contains selected themes from the box office sensation Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Playable by any combination of instruments -- large ensembles, small ensembles, or solos -- the arrangements capture the wonderful sounds from the movie. Fingering charts are included. Titles are: Hedwig's Theme * Diagon Alley * Hogwarts Forever * Nimbus 2000 * Cast a Christmas Spell * Harry's Wondrous World.

Genres: Fantasy, Harry Potter, Music

16 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2001

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

[Andrzej Luckwitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a great book full of adventure, humor and action. You get to love the characters and lots of different views too which made the book good. Also this book is part of a series so you can read a lot of it. I think this is the best book of the series because it started the series. There's a lot of crazy places and things that happened in the book with magic and all. This book will keep you reading and wanting to read more!

[Kimberly Parker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, written by J.K. Rowling was one of my favorite childhood books. I decided to reread it this year just for fun. In this book, the author wanted to strictly entertain her audience. Rowling imagined this complex wizardly world in her head and made a wonderful story out of it. She makes up this character, Harry Potter, who is introduced in the very first chapter of the book. He is dropped off to live with his wretched aunt and uncle who mistreat Harry and favor their own piggish son Dudley. When Harry turns eleven, he discovers that he is in fact a wizard. He has a hard time believing that he is actually a very important wizard, the boy who lived. After the most powerful dark wizard killed his parents, then tried to kill Harry, but he couldn't.... Harry Potter is very famous in this new wizard world. Rowling does a fantastic job of separating the wizard world and the 'muggle' world. (Muggle is a term used in the book used to describe someone with no magic within them.) Muggles are not supposed to understand the wizard world. Rowling also is very descriptive with the magic used in the book. Reading this again made me wish I could do magic, it seems that life would be easier. Hagrid, in the chapter Diagon Alley exclaims, "I don't know how the Muggles manage without magic." As Harry Potter learns more and more about his past, he gets ready to go to his new wizard school, Hogwarts. Harry is very excited to become a wizard but feels like he is going to be a bit behind because he grew up with a Muggle family. Little does he know, he has a natural talent at a lot of things taught in Hogwarts. As the story unfolds, Harry experiences adventure after adventure, that's why it's so hard to put this book down. Luckily, this is the first book of the series so there is much more to be read.

[Haynes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Harry potter and the sorcerer's stone is about how Harry deals with his step parents after showing up at their doorsteps. Unfortunately this family isn’t really one of those open hearted families that help one another out. In this book Harry discovers that it was Voldemort that killed his parents and place a scar in his forehead.

[Ashley Teagle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this story! I can now see why the Harry Potter series has been so wildly popular. I love stories that allow children to enjoy a fantasy world. At the same time, I loved the fact that Harry was the underdog who rises to the top. The book has themes of friendship, identity, and relationships with family.

[Phillipa · Rating 4 out of 5]

A light hearted read about a very depressed little boy.

I feel that J.K. Rowling gets a little too busy emphasizing the fact that Harry Potter has no friends, no family, no future that the plot lacks at times.

I'm not one for band wagons and hype, but I definitely look forward to reading the subsequent tales of Harry Potter's adventures.

[Dee · Rating 2 out of 5]

It didn't catch my attention. My friend said it gets better after the 3rd book, but I don't think I can continue to torture myself with another 2 books to read... Maybe one day, when I meet someone who really loves Harry Potter can tell me what's up... Not today.

[Tracey · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVED this book! It was such a fun read-great characters, fast paced, and never a dull moment. I am soooooo glad I finally listened to my many "Potter-head students" and picked up this book.

[sima]

good

[Eun]

ㅋㅋㅋ

[Elaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Difficulty level: Advanced

[Laila Syafei]

it's an amazing story that you will not imagine even the film was orbitted

[Amy Stone · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my kind of book. Sorry.

[Keaton]

It was pretty good i want to read some more of them.

[Fancifulgoddess · Rating 5 out of 5]

I learned I'd rather be weird than like the dursleys.

[Sour Skittlez]

this book is one freakin good boook

[ICONiac:D · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an amazing book I think who is ever into magic fictional creatures and loves mysteries this would be a great book for you..

[Veronica]

of course, i've read all of these, several times each.

[Horace Mann Family Reading Challenge · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. I have read it two times. C.G.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although I saw the movie before I listened to the audio book I am enjoying this story all over again!

[Tamar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think it was amazing!