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    Presentation On Bernard Hermans Score in Vertigo

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    A presentation showing the use of the score in the film Vertigo and the musics relationship with the screen.

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    Presentation On Bernard Hermans Score in Vertigo

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    A presentation showing the use of the score in the film Vertigo and the musics relationship with the screen.

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    Vertigo

    Bernard Herrmann’s Score

    Chris Wood & Nathan deBroize-King


    We will give…

    -An overview of Herrmann and Vertigo

    - Narrative and musical analysis of his use of motifs


    throughout the film

    -- Presentations of our pieces

    --
    Bernard Herrmann
    - Born in 1911

    - First feature film was Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane

    - Worked a lot with Hitchcock, starting with The


    Trouble with Harry
    Vertigo
    - Released in 1958

    - Based on the novel D’Entre les Morts

    - Focuses on themes of obsession

    - Plot
    Herrmann’s musical style
    - Preferred to use shorter 1 or 2 bar units as opposed to
    the popular 8 – 16 bar leitmotif

    - Use of repeated ostinati

    - Often rhythmically simple

    - Favoured the minor-major 7th chord, the ‘Hitchcock


    chord’
    Rooftop Chase
    - Chromatic moto perpetuo in the strings

    -Rhythmic augmentation

    - Use of tri-tones

    -Climaxes to the “Vertigo” chord


    Prelude
    Mirror Motif

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