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A Masterpiece Written For the Master
Composer Bernard Herrmann, who wrote the music to some of Alfred Hitchcock's most famous works of film (including Psycho, The Wrong Man, Strangers on a Train, North by Northwest, and The Man Who Knew Too Much) also wrote the musical score to his 1958 masterpiece, Vertigo. The true power and surrealism Vertigo generates is best experienced through watching the movie. It is the music that makes the movie - the chords that never really resolve themselves but try to make you believe they do, the odd proportions of musical instruments to one another, the obsession with the note "D". The music tries to convince you that it's typical, perhaps a little unusual, contemporary music. But it isn't. And it knows it's doing a bad job of convincing. The music is very much psychological, it plays on the senses. The music from Vertigo is wonderful, unnerving, poetic, hypnotizing, haunting, strange, beautiful - it reveals everything, and at the same time it reveals nothing. The movie has an aura that is embelished and brought to further life by the music. That's why I bought the CD. In fact, I thought I'd never find it. This is your chance. It doesn't matter what kind of music you listen to. This music doesn't fall into a catagory. We all dream, don't we? Of course we do. That's your answer. This is the music of the soul. Vertigo generates emotion from the deepest sub-consiousness of our being. I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised. E-mail me and tell me what you think.