Tea at Trianon: The Music of Hitchcock's films

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, January 11, 2007

The Music of Hitchcock's films

For those of us who are Alfred Hitchcock fans, here is an article about the music used in his films from Lew Rockwell.com. Share

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: In teaching this weekend to my PreConfimation class I spoke on my favorite Hitchcock film, I think it is called the Confession, with Mongomery Cliff. He portrays a priest who hears the confession of a man who has committed murder wearing the priests cassock. the preist is implicated when it is found out that the dead mans wife weas the girlfriend of Cliff before whe went to war. Cliff obstinately refuses to devulge the true murderer even at the cost of possible capital punishment.

Hitchcock being Catholic blended a virtuous story with a dramtic story. Well worth watching.

De Brantigny; January 11, 2007 at 9:53:00 AM EST
elena maria vidal said...: I agree, that film is one of my favorites, too!; January 11, 2007 at 10:09:00 AM EST
Alan Phipps said...: It was "I Confess" with Montgomery Clift, and it is one of my favs as well. There was a modern remake within the last few years called "Confession", but I haven't seen it so I don't know how good it is.; January 11, 2007 at 1:08:00 PM EST
elena maria vidal said...: I heard that Hitchcock never received an Oscar. Could that be true? It shows that the Oscars were worthless, even back then....; January 11, 2007 at 2:50:00 PM EST