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Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo A Film Score Handbook
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David Cooper
ISBN: 0-313-31490-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31490-2
176 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/2001
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £51.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Film Score Guides
Description: This in-depth musicological and critical study examines how Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo plays a crucial role in the articulation and development of the film's narrative and how it affects readings of the film. Herrmann's collaboration with Hitchcock spanned eleven years and nine films, and Herrmann's film score for Vertigo is widely regarded as being one of his finest. Cooper considers the development of Herrmann's career up to 1958, providing a detailed discussion of his musical style. The explicit information about the structure of Herrmann's music is based on a study of Herrmann's autograph score.

Cooper examines not only the context of the film's production, but also its reception and critical readings of the film. In addition, this study explores how the effects track co-operates with Herrmann's non-diegetic and diegetic score and concludes with a detailed musicological study. The author advances a new theory, in his discussion of signification, about the establishment of meaning in film music through association with images on the screen. This sophisticated musicological approach will appeal to film music and film communication scholars.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Herrmann's Career up to the Composition of Veritgo
    Overview of Herrmann's Musical Style in Vertigo
    Context of the Production of Vertigo and Readings of the Film
    Approaching Vertigo as a Musical and Sonic Text
    Analysis and Readings of the Score. 1. Madeleine
    Analysis and Readings of the Score. 2. Eurydice Ressuscitée
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: DAVID COOPER is Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Research in Music at the University of Leeds.
LCC Class: 781
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