Hitchcock's Music

SUMARIO. 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.