Wise Publications Music From The Hitchcock Films Woodbrass UK

alfred hitchcock was once so famous he was the only film director whose name appeared on the cinema marquee above the title he disparaged actors and loathed location shooting since both threatened the precise realisation of the film he had already made in his mind yet in his hollywood heyday he forged some creative collaborations he truly valued those with composers from the start hitchcock knew that music was an invaluable aid to any director of suspense movies who wanted to put his audience through the emotional wringer from arthur benjamin s pivotal cantata in the 1934 version of the man who knew too much to bernard herrmann s jagged soundtrack for the landmark shocker psycho the music was usually a visceral part of any hitchcock movie by the time john williams scored hitchcock s final film family plot 1976 a whole generation of moviegoers would always remember their favourite hitchcock film with as it were the soundtrack attached here arranged for piano are some of the most evocative themes from some of hitchcock s most unforgettable films alfred hitchcock presents family plot end titles marnie prelude north by northwest conversation piece north by northwest prelude psycho prelude the murder finale rear window lisa rope mouvement perpetuel no 1 spellbound main title the man who knew too much que sera sera the man who knew too much storm clouds cantata the trouble with harry overture the doctor the wrong man prelude vertigo carlotta s portrait vertigo prelude vertigo scene d amour