The Psycho Chord - Consonance vs Dissonance

Bernard Herrmann’s score for ‘Psycho’ might contain some of the most famous music ever written for film, and there’s nothing more recognisable than the Prelude’s opening stabbing string chords. In this essay, I look behind the minor major seventh chord that begins the film and consider how it is inextricably linked to the story of this iconic psychological thriller. ▶ Support my channel: ▶ Subscribe: ____________________ ▶ Website: ▶ Twitter: FURTHER READING/RESEARCH An Audiovisual Foreshadowing in Psycho (Scott Murphy): Herrmann, Hitchcock, and the Music of the Irrational (Royal S. Brown): Overtones and Undertones: Reading Film Music (Royal S. Brown): Psycho and The Orchestration of Anxiety (Stephen Deutsch): Bernard Herrmann: Film Music and Narrative (Graham Bruce): Hitchcock’s Bi-Textuality: Lacan, Feminisms, and Queer Theory (Robert Samuels): #Psycho