Bernard Herrmann "Psycho" Music - Titles by Saul Bass

The Wikipedia entry on "Psycho" devotes an entire section to Bernard Herrmann&soundtrack score. Christopher Palmer described it as "Herrmann&most spectacular Hitchcock achievement." Indeed, the director himself remarked that "33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music and depended heavily on it for its tension and sense of pervading doom." However, Hitchcock initially didn&want any music at all in the shower scene but Herrmann wrote some anyway and when Hitchcock heard it, he immediately accepted it. In fact, he was so impressed with the tense and dramatic music for "Psycho" that he doubled Herrmann&salary. He also ensured that the composer&name was the penultimate credit in the opening titles sequence, followed immediately by the director&a rare occurrence in movie credits . It is in fact the title sequence which sets the movie&tone with an orchestra of strings, deliberately harshly recorded, and Saul Bass&credit titles hurtling across the screen suggesting the violence to come. Bernard Herrmann wrote around 50 films scores, all the way from Orson Welles&"Citizen Kane" to Martin Scorse&"Taxi Driver," but there is little doubt that his score for "Psycho" is his most famous and influential of them all. In short, he remains one of the finest composers ever to come out of Hollywood. This is being uploaded on 29 June 2023 to mark Herrmann&birthday in 1911.