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Similar Music?

posted 20 years ago by tvaudenga2
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I just finished watching Vertigo and the music seems awfully familiar. I believe it is the identical music used in Mirage. Am I hearing things, or did both films use the same theme music?

[–] christyannme 20 years ago

I'm writing a paper on some of Peter Stone's movies..I looked up the composer and they are different. Quincy Jones did the score for Mirage and someone else for Vertigo. You can find it under the "more" credits section.

[–] reginella 19 years ago

The "someone else" who wrote the score for "Vertigo" was the legendary Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann collaborated with Hitch on "North by Northwest," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Psycho," and "The Birds" as well.

[–] reginella 19 years ago

You're hearing things, I'm afraid. Bernard Herrmann wrote the score for Vertigo, which is classically influenced (Wagner's "Liebes Tod"). Quincy Jones wrote the music for Mirage, which at times tends to be jazz influenced.

[–] rorysa 19 years ago

I don't hear any similarity between "Mirage" and "Vertigo." At any rate, I have loved the Main Title from "Mirage" ever since I first saw the film many years ago. Jones was just starting out in Hollywood when he scored "Mirage." Henry Mancini, who had a lot of sway at Universal, helped him get the job.

[–] lordhack_99 15 years ago

There are a few scenes in the park, in a telephone booth, at the bookstore window where, I must admit, the quiet, atmospheric music does remind me of like bits from Herrmann's '60s repertoire - for like scenes, too!

[–] lotsofwordz 13 years ago

I love the soundtrack, which is very appropriate for the period and the style of photography, and of course for the the whole jumpy and nervy and moody storyline, but I can't hear any similarities between it and Vertigo (one of my all-time favourite films), or indeed any other Hermann soundtrack.

It's true, however, that there is a Hitchcock feel to the whole film, but I wouldn't say that Vertigo is the one it comes closest too.

[–] asoloway 13 years ago

i was just thinking that the score from Mirage sounds like the music from Columbo. Real 60's music.

"Don't feed the dog from the table from the plate on top of it!"

[–] jayrussell1993 10 years ago

Mirage had a totally fresh score from Quincy Jones