Studying the chords of Hitchcock's VERTIGO Soundtrack (Bernard Herrmann)

Tim Smolens gives a beyond thorough, hour-long lesson and analysis of “Scene D’Amour” from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Vertigo.” The score was composed by one of the most decorated film composers of all tim, Bernard Herrmann. This achingly beautiful music embodies a sense of dark beauty and romance, as well as suspense. Herrmann’s ability to have beauty and darkness coexist was remarkable. His use of advanced chords unusual to the classical genre is noteworthy and almost gives the listener the sense that he understood jazz harmony. Tim uses this soundtrack to divulge a songwriting secret that it leans on, related to the key of the flat6 major.

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