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The film was scored in a different way than Hollywood went about scoring movies. Usually the standard way of doing it is to get a full edited assembly and show it to the composer, and then the composer works on that. But Welles didn't do that. He gave Herrmann sequences. And this was Herrmann's first glimpse of the film. It was just this, this montage of stuff going up to the castle. And it was on the basis of that that he composed this
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Yeah, so you can't even see the, well, at first you can't even see the audience. And this was one of the things, I guess, that Bernard Herrmann had a lot of fun with because this is a completely mythical opera. So Herrmann is writing a kind of a pastiche of an opera score.
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