Comments on: The Sound of Falling: Bernard Herrmann’s Score for Vertigo. http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/ Movie Reviews, Film Reviews, Film Podcast, Cinema, News, Interviews, Pop Culture Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:27:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Big bonus http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-7098 Big bonus Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:30:04 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-7098 So, my baby! Sorry, but: <a href="http://www.casino02.freebb.de/thread-38.html" rel="nofollow">Free java casino no download</a> casino <a href="http://www.casino02.freebb.de/thread-49.html" rel="nofollow">List flash no download casino</a> casino <a href="http://www.casino02.freebb.de/thread-35.html" rel="nofollow">Virtual casino birthday welcome bonus</a> casino <a href="http://www.casino02.freebb.de/thread-28.html" rel="nofollow">Flash no download casino without deposit</a> casino <a href="http://www.casino01.freebb.de/printthread.php?tid=1246" rel="nofollow">Internet poker web sites</a> So, my baby!
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]]> By: Clare Nina http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-4591 Clare Nina Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:27:15 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-4591 Hey Michele, Thank you very much for your comments! I'd also suggest having a read of Graham Bruce's "Bernard Herrmann: Film Music Narrative" (UMI Research, 1985) if you can get a hold of it. Really in-depth study that I found incredibly useful when I was at university writing about Herrmann's film music. Also, Steven C. Smith's biography on Herrmann is an excellent source of information and a must for fans! Best of luck with your essay! Hey Michele,
Thank you very much for your comments!
I’d also suggest having a read of Graham Bruce’s “Bernard Herrmann: Film Music Narrative” (UMI Research, 1985) if you can get a hold of it. Really in-depth study that I found incredibly useful when I was at university writing about Herrmann’s film music. Also, Steven C. Smith’s biography on Herrmann is an excellent source of information and a must for fans!
Best of luck with your essay!

]]> By: Clare Nina http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-4589 Clare Nina Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:22:04 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-4589 Thanks, Lee! Will check out your piece! Thanks, Lee!
Will check out your piece!

]]> By: Michele http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-4507 Michele Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:35:42 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-4507 Thank you Clare - the timing is perfect (not just Bernard's) but yours, as I am writing an essay about the Prelude and Chase scene of Vertigo and am searching for the correct way to understand what Bernie and Alfie not to mentipon Saulie are doing. I have watched and watched and listended and listened - and hav efound 6 'motifs' tho they may only be 'phrases' in the Prelude and 3 in the Chase scene - which incorporates sonme from the Prelude. I love love love the work of these men. I think the actress in the Prelude/titles is Joanne Genthon - as Jason says, she plays Carlotta in the dream. I guess whoever she is, she is the generic full lipped mature sexual woman and she has a rather disturbed unconscious mind - certainly putting the swirling Lissajois spirals (John Whitby's invention) together with the music Bernie created and having the titles begining to emerge from the eye in a Bunuelian moment and after spinning the audience around and activating their collective consciousness - and conscious reponses to the most emotive music - well its all jolly good fun - and the spirals return to her and reenter thru her eye and the Directed by Alfred Hitchcock emerges and then it goes to black again. Its the most richly tectured film and - yes its a pschoanalysts wet dream. I think the idea is that Hitch was reading Civilisation and its Discontents by this point in his active intellectual life. anyway - cheers for your essay, if i use any of your specific ideas or phrasing/expresion i will most certainly provide you as a reference. thank you again Clare. Thank you Clare – the timing is perfect (not just Bernard’s) but yours, as I am writing an essay about the Prelude and Chase scene of Vertigo and am searching for the correct way to understand what Bernie and Alfie not to mentipon Saulie are doing. I have watched and watched and listended and listened – and hav efound 6 ‘motifs’ tho they may only be ‘phrases’ in the Prelude and 3 in the Chase scene – which incorporates sonme from the Prelude. I love love love the work of these men.
I think the actress in the Prelude/titles is Joanne Genthon – as Jason says, she plays Carlotta in the dream. I guess whoever she is, she is the generic full lipped mature sexual woman and she has a rather disturbed unconscious mind – certainly putting the swirling Lissajois spirals (John Whitby’s invention) together with the music Bernie created and having the titles begining to emerge from the eye in a Bunuelian moment and after spinning the audience around and activating their collective consciousness – and conscious reponses to the most emotive music – well its all jolly good fun – and the spirals return to her and reenter thru her eye and the Directed by Alfred Hitchcock emerges and then it goes to black again. Its the most richly tectured film and – yes its a pschoanalysts wet dream. I think the idea is that Hitch was reading Civilisation and its Discontents by this point in his active intellectual life. anyway – cheers for your essay, if i use any of your specific ideas or phrasing/expresion i will most certainly provide you as a reference. thank you again Clare.

]]> By: Michele http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-4506 Michele Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:14:29 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-4506 Hi Jason - the actress is Joanne Genthon Hi Jason – the actress is Joanne Genthon

]]> By: Lee Matthias http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-4394 Lee Matthias Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:41:44 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-4394 Great article! I just did an article on VERTIGO at my blogsite, The Last Reveal (http://thelastreveal.blogspot.com/). I don't even recall the scene at night after he's lost Madeleine and I just watched it again for my article. My points included a re-evaluation of Kim Novak's performance--screenwriter William Goldman really ran it down in print once. Check out The Last Reveal on VERTIGO! Great article! I just did an article on VERTIGO at my blogsite, The Last Reveal (http://thelastreveal.blogspot.com/). I don’t even recall the scene at night after he’s lost Madeleine and I just watched it again for my article. My points included a re-evaluation of Kim Novak’s performance–screenwriter William Goldman really ran it down in print once. Check out The Last Reveal on VERTIGO!

]]> By: Clare Nina http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-3297 Clare Nina Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-3297 I didn't know that Jason - thanks for the info. I think I must have read in an article some time ago that it was Kim Novak. Having had a look at the opening credits again I see now it clearly isn't! I didn’t know that Jason – thanks for the info. I think I must have read in an article some time ago that it was Kim Novak. Having had a look at the opening credits again I see now it clearly isn’t!

]]> By: Clare Nina http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-3296 Clare Nina Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:42:49 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-3296 I second that! Fascinating and incredibly informative read. I second that! Fascinating and incredibly informative read.

]]> By: Steven Christie http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-3119 Steven Christie Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:54:41 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-3119 For anyone interested in the life and music of the colossus that is Mr.Herrmann i can recommend the book 'A HEART AT FIRE'S CENTER' by Steven.c.Smith published by U.C press. For anyone interested in the life and music of the colossus that is Mr.Herrmann i can recommend the book ‘A HEART AT FIRE’S CENTER’ by Steven.c.Smith published by U.C press.

]]> By: Jason http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-3014 Jason Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:18:42 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-3014 Good article and analysis. Just to be nitpicky: the film doesn't actually start with a close-up of Kim Novak's mouth and eyes. The close-ups are actually of the actress who played the mysterious Carlotta, only seen (outside of the portrait) in the dream sequence. I can't remember the actress' name off-hand, but it's definitely her, not Novak. Your confusion is warranted, though: this was the period in Hitchcock's films where he often utilized women who looked like each other in deliberately confusing ways. For instance, the poster for "The Birds" is actually not a picture of Tippi Hedren, but instead, it's Jessica Tandy colored with blonde hair so that she looks like Hedren! Good article and analysis. Just to be nitpicky: the film doesn’t actually start with a close-up of Kim Novak’s mouth and eyes. The close-ups are actually of the actress who played the mysterious Carlotta, only seen (outside of the portrait) in the dream sequence. I can’t remember the actress’ name off-hand, but it’s definitely her, not Novak. Your confusion is warranted, though: this was the period in Hitchcock’s films where he often utilized women who looked like each other in deliberately confusing ways. For instance, the poster for “The Birds” is actually not a picture of Tippi Hedren, but instead, it’s Jessica Tandy colored with blonde hair so that she looks like Hedren!

]]> By: Clare Nina http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-2021 Clare Nina Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:54:59 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-2021 Yeah, he lost a bit of momentum in the '60s with the film work until he was rediscovered in the '70s. I absolutely love his stuff for The Twilight Zone, that work was gold! Yeah, he lost a bit of momentum in the ’60s with the film work until he was rediscovered in the ’70s. I absolutely love his stuff for The Twilight Zone, that work was gold!

]]> By: Ricky http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-1974 Ricky Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:39:04 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-1974 It's a shame he had a falling out with Hitchcock. It is also a shame that he was never asked to score more movies. From my understanding he spent most of his career after Vertigo working in television. It’s a shame he had a falling out with Hitchcock. It is also a shame that he was never asked to score more movies. From my understanding he spent most of his career after Vertigo working in television.

]]> By: Joey K http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-1958 Joey K Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:34:02 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-1958 Brilliant! Brilliant!

]]> By: Clare Nina http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-1930 Clare Nina Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:53:41 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-1930 Thanks, Al! I haven't actually heard that score nor seen the film, Ricky. I'll add it to the list! A quick imdb check has me intrigued as I do have a soft spot for ol' Walter. Thanks, Al!

I haven’t actually heard that score nor seen the film, Ricky. I’ll add it to the list! A quick imdb check has me intrigued as I do have a soft spot for ol’ Walter.

]]> By: Ricky http://www.soundonsight.org/undertones-the-sound-of-falling-bernard-herrmann%e2%80%99s-score-for-vertigo/comment-page-1/#comment-1926 Ricky Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:05:12 +0000 http://www.soundonsight.org/?p=8366#comment-1926 I would love to read an article on the score for the original Taking of Pelham one, two, three by David Shire. I would love to read an article on the score for the original Taking of Pelham one, two, three by David Shire.

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