Working with Hitch

Neil Brand

doi:10.1386/st.3.1.25_1

ISSN: 1751-4193
E-ISSN: 1751-4207

Working with Hitch
By Neil Brand
Source: Soundtrack, The, Volume 3, Issue 1, Jul 2010, p. 25 - 31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/st.3.1.25_1
Language: English
- Published online: 01 Jul 2010

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Abstract

Although Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film Blackmail was released in both sound and silent versions, it is the sound version that is most familiar to modern audiences. Composer Neil Brand was commissioned to provide a score for the silent version and in this essay he reflects on the problems and the pleasures of creating a score that can reach modern audiences and enhance the intensity and the ambiguity of Hitchcock's masterpiece.

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Keyword(s): Alfred Hitchcock; Bernard Herrmann; Blackmail; Miklos Rozsa; music for silent film

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