Hitchcock's Music

CONTENTS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
OVERTURE......Page 16
CHAPTER 1 The Music Starts......Page 24
CHAPTER 2 Waltzes from Vienna: Hitchcock’s Forgotten Operetta......Page 43
CHAPTER 3 The Man Who Knew Too Much: Storm Clouds over Royal Albert Hall......Page 54
CHAPTER 4 Musical Minimalism: British Hitchcock......Page 62
CHAPTER 5 Rebecca: Music to Raise the Dead......Page 81
CHAPTER 6 Waltzing into Danger......Page 104
CHAPTER 7 Sounds of War......Page 119
CHAPTER 8 Spellbound: Theremins and Phallic Frescoes......Page 129
CHAPTER 9 Notorious: Bright Sambas, Dark Secrets......Page 147
CHAPTER 10 The Paradine Case: The Unhappy Finale of Hitchcock and Selznick......Page 160
CHAPTER 11 Hitchcock in a Different Key: The Post-Selznick Experiments......Page 167
CHAPTER 12 The Band Played On: A Tiomkin Trio......Page 179
CHAPTER 13 Rear Window: The Redemptive Power of Popular Music......Page 192
CHAPTER 14 Lethal Laughter: Hitchcock’s Fifties Comedies......Page 206
CHAPTER 15 The Man Who Knew Too Much: Doris Day versus the London Symphony......Page 215
CHAPTER 16 The Wrong Man: Music from the Dark Side of the Moon......Page 230
CHAPTER 17 Sing Along with Hitch: Music for Television......Page 237
CHAPTER 18 Vertigo: The Music of Longing and Loss......Page 245
CHAPTER 19 North by Northwest: Fandango on the Rocks......Page 258
CHAPTER 20 Psycho: The Music of Terror......Page 266
CHAPTER 21 The Birds: Aviary Apocalypse......Page 282
CHAPTER 22 The Music Ends: Hitchcock Fires Herrmann......Page 296
CHAPTER 23 Topaz: The Music Is Back......Page 313
CHAPTER 24 Frenzy: Out with Mancini, Hold the Bach......Page 321
CHAPTER 25 Family Plot: Hitchcock’s Exuberant Finale......Page 331
FINALE: HITCHCOCK AS MAESTRO......Page 341
NOTES......Page 346
INDEX......Page 360