Editing Cape Fear (1962 film) (section)

===Music===
[[Bernard Herrmann]], as often in his scores, uses a reduced version of the symphony orchestra. Here, other than a 46-piece string section (slightly larger than usual for film scores), he adds four [[flutes]] (doubling on two [[piccolos]], two [[alto flute]]s in G, and two [[bass flute]]s in C) and eight [[French horn]]s. No use is made of further wind instruments or percussion.<ref>[http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/herrmann/cape_fear.pdf Bill Wrobel: Cape Fear, score rundown analysis]</ref>

In his 2002 book ''A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann'', Stephen C. Smith writes:
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 "Yet Herrmann was perfect for ''Cape Fear'' ... Herrmann's score reinforces ''Cape Fear's'' savagery. Mainly a synthesis of past devices, its power comes from their imaginative application and another ingenious orchestration ... a rehearsal for his similar orchestration on Hitchcock's ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' in 1966. Like similar 'psychological' Herrmann scores, dissonant string combinations suggest the workings of a killer's mind (most startlingly in a queasy device for [[cello]] and [[bass viol]]s as Cadey{{sic}} prepares to attack the prostitute). Hermann's prelude searingly establishes the dramatic conflict: descending and ascending chromatic voices move slowly towards each other from their opposite registers, finally crossing–just as Boden and Cadey's game of cat-and-mouse will end in deadly confrontation."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1mUcGRpt0EC&pg=PA252 |title=A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann - Steven C. Smith - Google Books |date=May 31, 2002 |access-date=March 14, 2016 |isbn=0-520-22939-8 |page=252|last1=Smith |first1=Steven C. |publisher=University of California Press }}</ref>
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