MUSIC 246
Lecture 9
Thursday, March 8, 2012


Bernard Herrmann: (1911-1975)
- Born in New York City
- Studied at Julliard
- CBS radio in 1934
- Orson Wells

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Standardized Performance ensemble
- get any instrument needed into recording studio, record once

Vertigo (1958), North By Northwest (1959)

Vertigo
- when character experiences vertigo, same sound is played


Psycho (1960)
- Hitchcock purposely chose to film in black and white
- Music was written in "black and white"

- Part company during the filming of Torn Curtain
- Bitter, he moves to Europe. Truffaut: Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
- Last movie is Taxi Driver (1975)

Herrmann is a composer of the 20th century

Elmer Bernstein: (1922 - 2004)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- influence of Aaron Copland
- the sound of the American west
- remake of Japanese film

Studio systems
- controlled how movies got made, distribution, exhibition
- not good, always want to promote competition

