“In one of his promises, Aldous Huxley has raised the question of who, in a place of amusement, is really being amused. With the same justice, it can be asked whom music for entertainment still entertains. Rather, it seems to complement the reduction of people to silence, the dying out of speech as expression, the inability to communicate at all. It inhabits the pockets of silence that develop between people molded by anxiety, work and undemanding docility. Everywhere it takes over, unnoticed, the deadly sad role that fell to it in the time and the specific situation of the silent films. It is perceived purely as background.” UM, exsqueeze me???
— “On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening” by Theodor W. Adorno
omg.
this trailer gives everything away, in the wrong way. can’t believe it featured the orchestral version of “in the hall of the mountain king.” and mickey-mousing!
oldhollywood:Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo:Suite/I. Prelude (accompanies Vertigo’s title sequence)
Of Vertigo, BH said:
{{{{I dredged it from my subconscious.}}}}
I think it was cool to say things like this then
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“Hitchcock only finishes a picture 60%. I have to finish it for him.”
Bernard Herrmann
What a pill.
hey
this is the blog for the fall ‘09 haverford humanities center seminar, “screening music: an aural look at film”.
