The Music of Alfred Hitchcock

Or, at least, of his movies. From Saturday’s NPR Morning Edition, “‘Hitchcock’s Music’ Scores Big on Suspense“:

American Studies professor Jack Sullivan examines the celebrated director’s relationship to sound in his new book, Hitchcock’s Music.

Hitchcock’s fruitful and sometimes volatile collaboration with such composers as Bernard Hermann Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest) and Miklos Rozsa (Spellbound) created some of the most gripping scores of all time.

Sullivan tells Scott Simon about some favorite musical moments, notes Hitchcock’s fondness for waltzes and discourses on how his use of music has influenced generations of filmmakers.

Fun article (and, appropriately, an audio one).

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