CHAPTER 1. The Music Starts

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. OVERTURE xiii
5. CHAPTER 1. The Music Starts 1
6. CHAPTER 2. Waltzes from Vienna: Hitchcock’s Forgotten Operetta 20
7. CHAPTER 3. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Storm Clouds over Royal Albert Hall 31
8. CHAPTER 4. Musical Minimalism: British Hitchcock 39
9. CHAPTER 5. Rebecca: Music to Raise the Dead 58
10. CHAPTER 6. Waltzing into Danger 81
11. CHAPTER 7. Sounds of War 96
12. CHAPTER 8. Spellbound: Theremins and Phallic Frescoes 106
13. CHAPTER 9. Notorious: Bright Sambas, Dark Secrets 124
14. CHAPTER 10. The Paradine Case: The Unhappy Finale of Hitchcock and Selznick 137
15. CHAPTER 11. Hitchcock in a Different Key: The Post-Selznick Experiments 144
16. CHAPTER 12. The Band Played On: A Tiomkin Trio 156
17. CHAPTER 13. Rear Window: The Redemptive Power of Popular Music 169
18. CHAPTER 14. Lethal Laughter: Hitchcock’s Fifties Comedies 183
19. CHAPTER 15. The Man Who Knew Too Much: Doris Day versus the London Symphony 192
20. CHAPTER 16. The Wrong Man: Music from the Dark Side of the Moon 207
21. CHAPTER 17. Sing Along with Hitch: Music for Television 214
22. CHAPTER 18. Vertigo: The Music of Longing and Loss 222
23. CHAPTER 19. North by Northwest: Fandango on the Rocks 235
24. CHAPTER 20. Psycho: The Music of Terror 243
25. CHAPTER 21. The Birds: Aviary Apocalypse 259
26. CHAPTER 22. The Music Ends: Hitchcock Fires Herrmann 273
27. CHAPTER 23. Topaz: The Music Is Back 290
28. CHAPTER 24. Frenzy: Out with Mancini, Hold the Bach 298
29. CHAPTER 25. Family Plot: Hitchcock’s Exuberant Finale 308
30. FINALE: HITCHCOCK AS MAESTRO 318
31. NOTES 323
32. INDEX 337