“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” Soundtrack Released in Full
Last week, we got a glimpse into what to expect in the long-awaited Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore when two tracks from the soundtrack were released: the title track and another called “The Room We Require.” Now the soundtrack has been released in full, revealing a total of 39 tracks, which you can listen to online, buy through Amazon Music, or purchase on CD.
The soundtrack was written by Oscar-nominated composer James Newton Howard, who also wrote the scores for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In a short clip, Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander) describes the music from Secrets of Dumbledore as “really incredible.”
You can listen to the soundtrack in full on YouTube, as well as discover the names of each track within the description.
Secrets of Dumbledore was released in the United Kingdom on April 8. For those who live elsewhere and are still waiting on the release date in their country (April 15 in the United States), listening to the soundtrack and checking out the track names would be a good way to build up your excitement and curiosity.
1. I’m Expecting Someone
2. We Can Free Each Other
3. She’s Ready
4. Wyvern Rescue
5. Young Man’s Magic
6. I Know You Are There
7. Lally
8. Call Me Jacob
9. Countersight
10. A Message to Deliver
11. Insufficient Evidence
12. Do You Know What It’s Like?
13. Kama’s Memory
14. Same Blood
15. The Erkstag
16. Let Him Stand
17. Manticore Dance
18. Go to Him
19. Assassin!
20. Ted and Pick
21. The Escape
22. Kingdom of Bhutan
23. Powers of the Beast
24. Family History
25. Reanimation
26. The Room We Require
27. Surrounded
28. Hey Fellas
29. Case Chaos
30. A Full Heart
31. The Vote
32. He’s Lying to You
33. The Twin
34. He Sought to Kill, I Sought to Protect
35. I Was Never Your Enemy
36. The Promise
37. The Ceremony
38. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
39. Heaven – Gregory Porter
As you look through the list of track names, there are certainly a few that stand out and make us wonder what they allude to. Some of the names we can take guesses at; we assume “Manticore Dance” will play during the scene with the crab-like creatures Newt is seen imitating in the film’s trailer. “The Room We Require” must refer to the Room of Requirement, which we’ve seen several times in the Harry Potter films, so it will be interesting to discover what exactly the characters of Fantastic Beasts require from the room.
Other track names such as “Same Blood,” “Family History,” and “The Twin” perhaps point toward discovering more about the Dumbledore family, the family’s past, and what the connection between Credence and the Dumbledores is. Does “Young Man’s Magic” refer to the magic of Credence, or does it suggest flashbacks or memories of an even younger Albus Dumbledore or Gellert Grindelwald?
The score points toward lots of energy and action, with track titles such as “Assassin!,” “The Escape,” “Surrounded,” and “Case Chaos,” and which characters are being referred to in the tracks titled “He Sought to Kill and I Sought to Protect” and “I Was Never Your Enemy”?
Listening to this soundtrack is sure to get you excited if you haven’t watched the film yet. With the occasional nostalgic nod back to the Potter films, the powerful score is recognizable as being part of the Fantastic Beasts series, presenting the film as dark, mysterious, thrilling, wonderous, and of course, magical.
