Orchestra
SKU:
HL.14025900
Composed
by Bernard Herrmann.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Studyscore.
Music Sales #NOV750028.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14025900).
0.453
inches.
Herrmann
wanted to write a musical
portrait of his friend
and colleague Alfred
Hitchcok, so choose
motifs from the movie The
Trouble With Harry, one
of Hitchcock's more
personal and humorous
films. This
single-movement work for
Orchestra employs some of
the more familiar
elements of Herrmann's
compositional style:
short musical phrases
repeated and then
repeated again in other
positions, sharp use of
dynamics among them. From
the first note, the
creepiness begins.Bernard
Herrmann was among the
very greatest of all
composers of music for
cinema and there are many
who avow that he was the
greatest of all. A very
short list of the films
for which this
award-winning
composercreated
soundtracks includes
Citizen Kane, The Man Who
Knew Too Much, Vertigo,
Jason and Argonauts,
Fahrenheit 451, Obsession
and Taxi Driver. He had a
long and fertile
association with Alfred
Hitchcock during the most
productive period of
Hitchcock's career and
with Orson Welles from
the time of the Mercury
Theatre on the Air. In
addition to his
conducting and composing
work for the
entertainment world,
Herrmann wrote concert
pieces, including a
symphony, opera and
cantata.
