Bernard Herrmann and Vertigo

Bibliography

Books and book chapters

David A. Cook - A History of Narrative Film – Alfred Hitchcock (pp. 220-235)

David Schroeder - Hitchcock's Ear - Music and the Director's Art (2012) – chapter on Vertigo

Jack Sullivan - Hitchcock's Music (2006) – chapter that also includes Vertigo

Royal S. Brown - Overtones and Undertones - Reading Film Music – interview chapters: Herrmann &
Raksin (Raksin on Herrmann)

Steven C. Smith - A Heart at Fire's Center - The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann (1991) (UC Press,
2002) – chapters detailing the Hitchcock/Herrmann collaboration

Steven Rawle, Kevin J. Donnelly (ed.) - Partners in Suspense - Critical Essays on Bernard Herrmann and
Alfred Hitchcock (2016) – chapter on Vertigo

Scholarly papers on Vertigo

Antony John - "The Moment That I Dreaded and Hoped for: Ambivalence and Order in Bernard
Herrmann's Score for Vertigo." The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 516-544.

Dan Blim - "Musical and Dramatic Design in Bernard Herrmann's Prelude to Vertigo (1958)." Music and
the Moving Image, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 21-31.

David Butler - "The Days Do Not End: Film Music, Time and Bernard Herrmann." Film Studies, Issue 9,
Winter 2006.

Royal S. Brown - "Herrmann, Hitchcock, and the Music of the Irrational." Cinema Journal, Spring, 1982,
Vol. 21, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 14-49

Scholarly papers on Herrmann and his other scores

Anthony Bushard - "Waging the Peace: Bernard Herrmann and The Day the Earth Stood Still." College
Music Symposium, Vol. 49/50 (2009/2010), pp. 314-326

David Neumeyer - "Tonal Design and Narrative in Film Music: Bernard Herrmann's 'A Portrait Of Hitch'
and The Trouble With Harry." Indiana Theory Review, SPRING/FALL 1998, Vol. 19 (SPRING/FALL 1998),
pp. 87-123
Debra Daniel-Richard - "The Dance of Suspense: Sound and Silence in North by Northwest." Journal of
Film and Video, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Fall 2010), pp. 53-60

Jack Sullivan - "The Music of Terror." Cinéaste, WINTER 2006, Vol. 32, No. 1 (WINTER 2006), pp. 20-28

James Wierzbicki - "Shrieks, Flutters, and Vocal Curtains: Electronic Sound/Electronic Music in
Hitchcock's The Birds." Music and the Moving Image, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Summer 2008), pp. 10-36

John Broeck, Bernard Herrmann - "Music of the Fears." Film Comment, SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1976, Vol.
12, No. 5 (SEPTEMBEROCTOBER 1976), pp. 56-60

Kathryn Kalinak - "The Text of Music: A Study of The Magnificent Ambersons." Cinema Journal, Summer,
1988, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Summer, 1988), pp. 45-63

Lloyd Whitesell - "Concerto Macabre." The Musical Quarterly, Summer, 2005, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Summer,
2005), pp. 167-203

Media

Howard Goodall - "Twentieth Century Greats: Bernard Herrmann" (TV show episode)

Norma Herrmann, Dorothy Herrmann, Les Zador, Richard Kaufman, Steven C. Smith - "Bernard
Herrmann Legacy Interviews" (Film Music Foundation)

Rick Beato - "Everything Music: The Film Music of Bernard Herrmann" (Music analysis channel)

Steven C. Smith - "Bernard Herrmann and Crime Classics" (public lecture)

Steven C. Smith - "The Life and Times of Bernard Herrmann," Parts 1 and 2 (ASMAC workshop, 2021)

DVD/Blu-ray commentary tracks

Vertigo (1958) (Commentary with Herbert Coleman, Robert A. Harris, James C. Katz, Samuel Taylor,
Steven C. Smith, Kim Novak)

Garden Of Evil (1954) (Isolated Score with Commentary with Steven C. Smith, John Morgan, William
Stromberg, Nick Redman)

Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1959) (Isolated Score with Commentary with Steven C. Smith, Nick
Redman, Diane Baker)

Mysterious Island (1961) (Blu-ray, Isolated Score with Commentary with Randall William Cook, C.
Courtney Joyner, Steven C. Smith)

The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad (1958) (Isolated Score with Commentary with Ray Harryhausen, Phil Tippett,
Randy Cook, Steven C. Smith, Arnold Kunert) (DVD, 2008)

The Bride Wore Black (1968) (Isolated Score with Commentary with Steven C. Smith, Nick Redman, Julie
Kirgo)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) (Blu-ray, Isolated Score with Commentary with John Morgan, Steven
C. Smith, William Stromberg, Nick Redman)

The Devil And Daniel Webster (1941) (Isolated Score with Commentary with Steven C. Smith and Bruce
Eder)

The Twilight Zone - Eye Of The Beholder (1960) (Commentary with Steven C. Smith and Jon Burlingame)