Professor MERVYN COOKE MERVYN.COOKE@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Music
Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Cooke, Mervyn
Authors
Contributors
James Cook
Editor
Alexander Kolassa
Editor
Adam Whittaker
Editor
Abstract
George Fenton’s resourceful use of both pastiche and genuine baroque and classical music in the scoring of period-set feature films is nowhere more impressive than in Dangerous Liaisons (1988). Strongly influenced by the films of Alfred Hitchcock, director Stephen Frears suggested that Fenton also write in a manner which emulated Bernard Herrmann’s music to North by Northwest (1959). The result was a fascinating score which unites the instrumental resources (and specialised performers) typical of baroque orchestras, including prominent parts for harpsichord, fortepiano and baroque organ, with highly charged scoring techniques and sonorities more typical of modern thrillers.
Citation
Cooke, M. (2018). Baroque à la Hitchcock: the music of Dangerous Liaisons (1988). In J. Cook, A. Kolassa, & A. Whittaker (Eds.), Recomposing the past: representations of early music on stage and screen. Routledge
Book Type | Book Chapter |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Mar 1, 2018 |
Book Title | Recomposing the past: representations of early music on stage and screen |
Chapter Number | 2 |
ISBN | 9781138287471 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1122010 |
Publisher URL | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351975520/chapters/10.4324%2F9781315268255-3 |
Related Public URLs | https://www.routledge.com/Recomposing-the-Past-Representations-of-Early-Music-on-Stage-and-Screen/Cook-Kolassa-Whittaker/p/book/9781138287471 |
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