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Re: Return of the Hermannesque score
• Posted by: Erik Mulder   <Send E-Mail>
• Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 2:30 p.m.
• IP Address: asn-npk-141db.adsl.wanadoo.nl
• In Response to: Re: Return of the Hermannesque score (E. Mulder)

oh ##### FORBIDDEN PLANETS was not from Herrmann... well it's only 2 years later that I found out... too bad.. like many things -_-'

> The main titles section of Signs has basically the same setup as Psycho.
> It is accompanied by fast paced unsettling and classic Herrmann-style
> scoring.
I also sensed a bit of Vertigo here and there.
Is this
> the return to pre-Star Wars era? Even Williams seems a bit fed up with
> that popular romanticism in his latest SW soundtrack. It sounds more
> experimental.
The Signs score could have been even more interesting
> with the use of electronics, like in the old days with THE DAY THE EARTH
> STOOD STILL or THE FORBIDDEN PLANET (also by Herrmann). There's a great
> instrument that would have been apropriately spooky in Signs. It can be
> also be heard to a great extent in Miklos Rosza's Spellbound, but what's
> it'name?




Comments in this Thread:     Expand >>
  • Return of the Hermannesque score  (4832 views)
       Sean Raduechel - Monday, September 2, 2002, at 10:21 p.m.
    •    Re: Return of the Hermannesque score  (4740 views)
         E. Mulder - Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 10:40 a.m.
      •      Re: Return of the Hermannesque score  (4627 views)    We're Here
           Erik Mulder - Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 2:30 p.m.
      •     (4615 views)
           Ashi-taka469 - Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 11:06 a.m.



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