{"id":10348,"date":"2007-02-12T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/12\/the-music-of-alfred-hitchcock.html"},"modified":"2007-02-12T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T17:35:50","slug":"the_music_of_alfred_hitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/the_music_of_alfred_hitch.html","title":{"rendered":"The Music of Alfred Hitchcock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, at least, of his movies. From Saturday’s NPR Morning Edition, “‘Hitchcock’s Music’ Scores Big on Suspense<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

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American Studies professor Jack Sullivan examines the celebrated director’s relationship to sound in his new book, Hitchcock’s Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fun article (and, appropriately, an audio one).<\/p>\n

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(via Avocet)<\/p>\n

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Or, at least, of his movies. 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