‘Half-Blood Prince’ Soundtrack Details Revealed

Good news Potter geeks (and film score geeks), soundtrack details of Nicholas Hooper’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have been released.  This is the second score Hooper has composed for the Harry Potter film series.  He previously scored the 5th film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.  John Williams scored the first three films and Patrick Doyle scored the 4th.   Hooper is a prominent British television and film composer and has scored BBC productions of Land of the Tiger and Andes to Amazon.  He won two BAFTA awards for Best Original Television Music, one in 2004 for The Young Visiters and one in 2007 for Prime Suspect: The Final Act.  Hooper has collaborated with Half-Blood Prince director David Yates over the years, however no word has been made on Hooper scoring Yates’ other upcoming Harry Potter films, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will be split into two parts.

The soundtrack will be released on July 14, 2009.  Read on for the track list.

UPDATE: Sound clips are now available at Amazon.com or on the Soundtrack Preview widget.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Music by Nicholas Hooper
Label:  New Line Records

1. Opening
2. In Noctem
3. The Story Begins
4. Ginny
5. Snape & the Unbreakable Vow
6. Wizard Wheezes
7. Dumbledore’s Speech
8. Living Death
9. Into the Pensieve
10. The Book
11. Ron s Victory
12. Harry & Hermione
13. School!
14. Malfoy’s Mission
15. The Slug Party
16. Into the Rushes
17. Farewell Aragog
18. Dumbledore’s Foreboding
19. Of Love & War
20. When Ginny Kissed Harry
21. Slughorn’s Confession
22. Journey to the Cave
23. The Drink of Despair
24. Inferi in the Firestorm
25. The Killing of Dumbledore
26. Dumbledore’s Farewell
27. The Friends
28. The Weasley Stomp