For this Halloween special, Chris and Sridhar ask: what makes music scary? They discuss "scary" associations with certain kinds of music, whether or not music can be intrinsically scary, classic scores for Alfred Hitchcock films, and Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre."
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Episode clips on Instagram @impolitelisten
Useful links:
Karl Richter - Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
German Brass - Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Sideways - Why Pipe Organs Sound Scary
Stephen King - Three types of horror
Psycho - Shower scene
Cat watches horror movie
Bernard Herrmann - wikipedia
Psycho - soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann
Jaws - soundtrack by John Williams
Uncanny valley
Ligeti - Lontano
György Ligeti - wikipedia
Ligeti - Musica ricercata
Franz Waxman - wikipedia
Four Pieces from Rear Window
Rebecca Suite - Franz Waxman
Waxman - Theme from Rebecca
Sequence from Rebecca showing Waxman's brilliant scoring
Truffaut interviews Hitchcock
Psycho - opening scene
North by Northwest soundtrack - Bernard Herrmann
James Bond Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Danse macabre - wikipedia
Danse macabre - l'orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Danse macabre animation
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