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Podcast: The Soundtrack Show
Episode: Psycho: the Music (Part II)
Description: In part 2 of our look at Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, we discuss how composer Bernard Herrmann skillfully builds tension with his use of repetition early on in the score. In the second half of the film, as a new, 3-note motive emerges, we break down its musical characteristics, and discuss how its used to warn us as the movie shifts from being a psychological thriller, to a classic whodunit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices