Psycho

Strings only, no brass or percussion: a black-and-white score for a black-and-white film. Hitchcock wanted the shower scene without music, and Herrmann talked him out of it.

Music by

Bernard Herrmann

The album

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Scene-by-scene analysis

Strings that cut