MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - North By Northwest, Ennio Morricone, Motion Picture Production Code
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1955 herrmann begins collaboration with alfred hitchcock. Vertigo (1958), north by northwest (1959), limited budget shot in black and white. Herrmann uses only strings black and white score. Cues tend to set a single mood and show little response to what happens minute by minute. Overall the mood is bleak and has little emotional warmth. Quiet but unsettled marion"s discomfort with the theft. Grows slightly in intensity as she decides to take the money. Music enters as she makes her escape . At first seems to play her fear at being caught. But as she changes, music seems to play her fall to the dark side. Harmonics as norman spies on marion, no emotion. Part company during the filming of torn curtain (1964) Bitter, he moves to europe: truffaut: fahrenheit 451 (1966) Herrmann is a composer of the 20th century: Early 60s an extension of the 1950s. By mid 60s the production code is abandoned.