Sullivan, Jack, 1946-

Hitchcock's music / Jack Sullivan. - New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2006. - xix, 354 p. : ill., ports., partial musical scores ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index.

Overture The music starts Waltzes from Vienna : Hitchcock's forgotten operetta The man who knew too much : storm clouds over Royal Albert Hall Musical minimalism : British Hitchcock Rebecca : music to raise the dead Waltzing into danger Sounds of war Spellbound : theremins and phallic frescoes Notorious : bright sambas, dark secrets The paradine case : the unhappy finale of Hitchcock and Selznick Hitchcock in a different key : the post-Selznick experiments The band played on : a Tiomkin trio Rear window : the redemptive power of popular music Lethal laughter : Hitchcock's fifties comedies The man who knew too much : Doris Day versus the London Symphony The wrong man : music from the dark side of the moon Sing along with Hitch : music for television Vertigo : the music of longing and loss North by northwest : fandango on the rocks Psycho : the music of terror The birds : aviary apocalypse The music ends : Hitchcock fires Herrmann Topaz : the music is back Frenzy : out with Mancini, hold the Bach Family plot : Hitchcock's exuberant finale Finale : Hitchcock as maestro.

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Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 --Criticism and interpretation.


Motion picture music--History and criticism.
Television music--History and criticism.

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