SCENE D'AMOUR from 'Vertigo' by Bernard Herrmann (Score Video)
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Transcription (with analysis) of the music accompanying the Love Scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film 'Vertigo'. The score was composed by composer Bernard Herrmann.
I've provided a very basic and accessible analysis of the music which allow you to further understand the compositional craft behind this cue.
Recorded by
the Sinfonia of London, conducted by Muir Mathieson
I am not a musician, but I know what music I love, and this is one of the best pieces I listen to often. I am familiar with the music of Wagner, and when I heard the Hermann piece I thought it had notes of Tristan und Isolde. Years ago I Googled that, and I was right. Thank you for posting this wonderful work of art.
This has to be one of the most haunting themes in film history!
very true
I agree.
Thank you for this! ❤
Huge respect!!! Thank you for this “lesson” of music, Hermann is genius!
It would be very interesting to play this for someone who has never heard it and have them right down all the emotions they feel being represented.
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We watched Vertigo again last night and I was overwhelmed once again by the appalling tragedy of it, and then I found this useful analysis. Thank you. On the Wagner thumbprints, worth noting also the "Ring" love motifs from bar 34, and the melodic turns from 71, which are absolutely typical. Plus the sequencing up or down. And yet Herrmann's music sounds so much his own as well.
I think Hermann take's Wagnerian concepts to it's utmost form. People always say he was so influenced by Wagner but the bigger influence really is 'Verklärte Nacht' of Schoenberg.
Glad you enjoyed this and thank you for stopping by the channel! Trying to bring more content like this to UA-cam once we get some more support!
Anthony O'Toole And “Verklärte Nacht,” in my opinion, is really the last gasp of Nineteenth-Century German Romanticism.
You're absolutely right! There is but only so much room on the screen and I try to include the most pertenant information -- there are several more things I'd love to discuss in the music and gladly we have the comment section for further discussion. Thank you for watching and a leaving your comment
@@Gregorius24 you are not incorrect, Schoenberg really knew the style and musical tradition he was about to replace haha
Amazing work about Maestro Herrmann... Thanks for this!
Thanks for taking the time to put this together. What an amazing composition.
Moving Pictures yes truly incredible music, it was a pleasure to dig in and present an analysis and reduction. If you like this content subscribe and consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/anthonyotoolemusic
Jeepers, this is amazing! I did a recreation of the main theme with virtual instruments with a little analysis, but my theory knowledge pales into insignificance compared to yours. Absolutely brilliant.
Alex Ball Geez man, I'm very flattered. I've been watching your vids and noticed this and the stoic theme mock ups! Well done
Would you be able to share that midi file? Id' love to see your work and try out some of my samples!
Great job on analyzing this magnificent piece. Thank you.
I’m not a Musician, but it’s unforgettable, fascinating music.
However, I heard it clearly in Lars Von Trier’s film, ‘Europa’!
It was the only time I spoke aloud during the screening. I said, “Vertigo”.
They called it ‘an homage’, but I laughed. I call that ‘A Grab’!!
i read somewhere that this music is played in Europa. I know that film but really can't recall at which point it's played.
The poor trumpets, indeed. They needed a break from blasting us senseless elsewhere! Incomparble analysis, bravo!
I came here for the use that Hazanavicius made of this piece in "The Artist" (2011), I knew that I'd heard it before.
Brilliant work, very good analysis, one of my favourite pieces.
Thank you, this is pretty high up there in terms of film scores. I haven't found a BH score I don't love. More videos coming soon
Fantastic signature. I wonder who else could create such atmosphere to AHs movies? Some Tristan and Isolde there.
Sad Pepe at the end made me chuckle, nice touch
I loved this analysis. Poor old trumpets.
Thank you for your superb analysis of Scene D'amour from "Vertigo".
thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! trying to do more film score transcriptions in the near future! I'm thinking Spartacus...
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic Either "Spartacus" of Hugo Friedhofer's "The Best Years of Our Lives".
Rudolph Kopp Im already working on transcribing the main titles to Spartacus by Alex North
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic That will be an onerous task given the complexity of Alex's music for "Spartacus".
Rudolph Kopp it is taking a bit, but I’m getting most of it. Also the quality of the recording technology back then makes a lot of things harder to hear - but not impossible!
This is super high quality work! As a professional jazz pianist, I am in love with the harmony of this piece. It’s taken me back to study more Wagner. The chord analysis and voicings of the orchestra are superb!
the Tristan chord sounds like a half diminished 7th chord but is spelled differently, not a fully diminished.
What's a half-diminished 7th chord? New terminology to me. Perhaps, something Edgard Varese [or Carl Ruggles] might have tried out.
@@rudolphkopp9902 take a fully diminished 7th, raise the 7th a half step and you get a 7th half diminished.
@@viola_ti_do4291 Many thanks for that info.
Great job thank you so much
It is the most romantic music and has many meanings such as how are the lov growing and be the real love
This video emphasizes Wagner, but there's likely earlier operatic influences, too! I got the urge to listen to Scene D'Amour (and thus finding this video) because of hearing excerpts from Verdi's La Traviata and Pucchini's Manon Lescaut back to back. Herrmann's composition may well have been more contemporary, but much of its sweeping romantic force comes from the combination of said composition with the more traditionally romantic and dramatic arrangement choices.
But I don't have experience with chord analysis, so this video was a real treat for learning that stuff!
You hit the spot. Manon Lescaut and Traviata diminished chord progression.
Nice Work Man !!
Love it!! Nice work, Antoine!!
Thanks, Paddy!
Great analysis, good work. Thanks
Thank you, Luis.
excellent job, thnk you!
Great work. Subscribed.
much appreciated -- thanks, Tom!
Dear Anthony. This is a very, very accurate representation of what is happening and this is way better than the stuff I bought. I am planning to do an analysis on my channel which would have a much more limited approach and a different angle (some thoughts about Schönberg's "schwebende Tonalität" and how different levels of fluid tonalities can be identified here). I won't use your material directly but of course it clarifies some of the mistakes I have in the score I bought. Your accuracy saves so much time for me. I did a 12$ contribution on patreon and hope that is ok with you. Many thanks and best wishes.
That sounds like a video I'd love to watch! I am very glad I could be helpful to you in your process of analyzing the music in your own way. If you'd like to use it I would be fine with that, just contact me if you would want to. There are a small handful of mistakes in here but overall I did the best I could doing this by ear -- I sadly didn't have the score when I did this.
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic I will probably only go to 1:20 which is a bit sad because this is so cool what happens there. A romantic ear would really like to resolve in Ab major or Fm but this is typical I think for the section of that piece that you almost always get parallel keys and chromatic mediants instead of diatonic chords. I will use a simplified version and some own abstractions. But thanks a lot for being so open about it, this is very helpful. When it's out I'll post it in the comments.
@@musictheorypodcast9946 Yeah even when Bernard Herrmann was writing in a perceptively 'Romatic' style the music he was making was a little different than Strauss and Wagner -- plus he had a knack for subverting expectation!
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic Dear Anthony, I released a short video that deals with the tonal and chordal implications of the harmonic pendulum right in the beginning of the scene: ua-cam.com/video/VqaQ6eQCCiE/v-deo.html
Thanks again for the great help!
@@musictheorypodcast9946 I will check it out!
Very nice analysis. One point: you say the TC sounds like a fully diminished chord; wouldn't a jazz framework view it as a B _half diminished_ chord in second inversion - so that the TC + the E7 next chord are an imperfect cadence, implying a 2-5-1 into A minor?
4:22 - isn't this a G pedal again! Fantastic transcription btw, thank you for sharing! Love this piece!
oh wow geez I never noticed that when I was engraving it from my hand written version -- must have looked like A's (my handwriting is atrocious). Good eye, Ace! thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed this
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic Absolutely! The use of pedal tone in this just genius.... and the Wagnerian harmony of that main motif gets me everytime. Watching this scene and hearing that music to picture always gives me massive chills! Best wishes, and keep us the amazing work!
Ace Vaptsarov Herrmann was a genius, and it’s one of his finest musical moments. If you enjoy this kind of stuff I have other transcriptions in the pipeline (Spartacus and Citizen Kane, yo name s few) but need more supporters on Patreon to finish all the work that goes into these videos. If you can spare a buck it would be greatly appreciated
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic So true! Citizen Kane is one of the greatest films I've ever seen for sure... it's been a while and I need to rewatch soon! North by Northwest is also obviously so good! Good luck, keep up the awesome work! :)
Thanks for this! ... For any Herrmann nerds, you can find his hand-written score for Scene D'amour here: www.scribd.com/document/259551907/Vertigo-Complete-Score-HW Scene D'amour is on page 113.
It doesn’t seem to work
wonderful
Tristan chord is not fully diminished 7. it's half diminished 7 or [ min7 b5 ]
The "tristan chord" sounds, and is written, as a half diminished, not fully diminished. What are you on about with that exactly?
Very nicely done! Do you have a pdf of the full score for this? Thanks
You can contact me through my website for the PDF
Really enjoyed your analysis. Would it be possible to get a copy of your annotated transcription?
Paul Campbell email me otooleanthony88@gmail.com
hello mr anthony o toole, i love this transciption, would be lovely you can share the annotated scores, transciption
I think the upper melody rhythm is notated incorrectly in measure 61. But AMAZING analysis here! Thanks for sharing it.
you know, as good as I am with transcribing music by ear... I alwaysss mess up something that should be the easiest parts haha I'm sure there is other mistakes in there too! good eye though, thanks!
Something you may not know..Herrmann encouraged Mathesons conducting from LA, but later stated some parts were sloppy and error-ridden..to Herrmann's credit, he supported the musicians strike that year and later summarized Vertigo as a 'missed opportunity'
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isn't the tristan chord the enharmonic equivalent of a half diminished chord, not a fully diminished chord? you put fully diminished in the video
my apologies! i noticed that too late
Does anyone know who orchestrated Herrmann’s scores? Was it indeed the man himself?
In many cases BH's short score were so descript that a real orchestrator wasn't needed much like the case with John Williams who's short scores contain every detail necessary. BH did orchestrate some of his own music but a few others are affiliated with him.
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Which software did you use to transcribe the music?
I just transcribe it by ear after listening to it like 100 times, then I just put it into Finale 2014, then i have video editing software where I can use the exported PDF files saved as high-res JPEGs
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic Thank you so much for your answer. I’d really love to get the original score, but I think it has not been published yet.
@@josevillarbuzon7646 I don't think the score is available commercially, I did this by ear essentially so I guess this is as close as we get until someone releases an edition.
why not to compare the 2?
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Poor trumpets having to wait the whole piece to only play at the end. That isn’t as bad as the piccolo player in Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony who sits there the entire symphony only to play on the brief Thunderstorm. These things happen I guess lol.
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Man, hyperschmaltz or what
Rather amateuristic analyses....Wagner, Strauss, Korngold, Zemlinsky and Mahler to a certain extend. No Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff at all.
These analyses are meant to be as simple and accessible as possible -- I have done far more in-depth analysis for school assignments but in my approach to this UA-cam channel I realize the audience is largely curious younger musicians and adults with limited theory and score study knowledge.
Does anyone know who orchestrated Herrmann’s scores? Was it indeed the man himself?
Yeah pretty sure he wrote it all out