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| | Sound in Psycho |
 | | Although Hermann was clearly not the sort who easily took direction, the composer was to follow closely Hitchcock's dictates as to the music cues for the opening third of Psycho- with a single, unforgettable exception. |
 | | For Psycho, Bernard Hermann was to concoct nothing less than a cello and violin masterwork, "fl and white" music that throbbed sonorously as often as it gnawed at the nerve endings. |
 | | The score would prove to be a summation of all of Hermann's previous scores for Hitchcock's films, conveying as it did the sense of the abyss that is the human psyche, dread, longing, regret in short, the wellsprings of the Hitchcock universe. |
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