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Citizen Kane Leitmotifs and Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead

Film Music Notes Posted on February 26, 2013 by Mark RichardsSeptember 1, 2014

Bernard Herrmann is well known to have largely avoided the technique of leitmotif, which by the late 1930s had become a staple of Hollywood film music, especially in the scores of Max Steiner and Erich Korngold. But clearly Herrmann felt … Continue reading →

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Comparing Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho Score and Sinfonietta (1936)

Film Music Notes Posted on January 18, 2013 by Mark RichardsApril 19, 2013

Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the most highly regarded in film history, most of all because the music does so much to create the suspenseful and sometimes terrifying atmosphere of the film. It is surprising, then, that … Continue reading →

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