Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

9And what does the "85" mean??)It is interesting that you are under the spell of a relatively obscure or little discussedfeature film score by Herrmann. Probably the least talked about (or ever!) is A Hatful ofRain.At any rate, since you are under the spell, here is an appropriate cue for studypurposes:{Image http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9863/img0002uk.jpghttp://img101.imageshack.us/img101/9863/img0002uk.jpg_______________________________________________talkingherrmann mailing list***********************Talking Herrmann: hangover squareReply by: Bill Wrobel ()______________________________________________________________________HangoverNerve85:Below for study purposes is "The Cat" cue from the score. Interesting that Herrmannhas the alternate flutes playing gliss technique once the cat appears. Such a universaldevice (usually with violins) used by film music composers, including Waxman in hisJack Benny score, Horn Blows at Midnight, Max Steiner (such as in Distant Trumpet)when it involves cats or, especially, "catty" femme fatale line.In Herrmann's cue, it appears that the piccolo in Bar 5 plays Line 1 B quarter notegliss up to Line 2 Ab 8th initially, and that's a very dissonant m7 interval, and then itsounds Line 1 A quarter note gliss up to Line 2 Eb, and that's a rather expected (forHerrmann!) tritone interval--in this case, the dim 5th interval. So, hinted at musically asconstructed, it's not going to be a pleasant episode, that scene!In the Waxman R8/3 segment bars, we have the violins in harmonics playing the risingto falling catty glisses. The flutes play the fully written out "11" figure on the rise. This issuch a great score. I always enjoy listening to it. I don't know if it would sell well if rerecordedbut it is a masterful, fun score. I believe Stalling was involved in the final cue(s)action scenes but I'll have to check my notes. But I don't recall seeing Stallings's namewritten down on the music there that I researched--but I did not have the cue sheets.I'm looking for the Steiner segment and the catcall violins device, but so far I cannotlocate my notes. Maybe I'll include it later....{Image http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2794/img0003jq.jpg170