Indiana Theory Review (1998) - Tonal Design and Narrative in Film Music: Bernard Herrmann's "A Portrait of Hitch" and "The Trouble with Harry"

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• article: Tonal Design and Narrative in Film Music: Bernard Herrmann's "A Portrait of Hitch" and "The Trouble with Harry"
• author(s): David Neumeyer
• journal: Indiana Theory Review (1998)
• issue: volume 19, issue 1-2, pages 87-123
• journal ISSN: 0271-8022
• publisher: School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington
• keywords: Comparative Analysis, Film Music, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Films, Bernard Herrmann, Music and Other Literary/Performing/Visual Arts, Sound Processing, Soundtracks, Tonality

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Abstract

Explores the issues involved with analysis of tonal design in sound film. Discusses the traditional harmonic/tonal analysis of Bernard Herrmann's orchestral scherzo "A Portrait of Hitch" (1968), which is derived form his music for Alfred Hitchcock's film "The Trouble With Harry" (1954). Summarizes elements of traditional thematic reading of film music, and includes Claudia Gorbman's "seven rules" for music's narrative functions in film. Presents a survey of the problem of tonality in film from a theoretical perspective. Asserts that the survey, together with the rules, will enable readers to look more closely at Hitchcock's film and to locate and articulate a niche for tonality in the activity of reading films and their music.