Answer some questions about notable scores from horror films, for 10 points each.
[10e] Bernard Hermann composed a screechy, string-heavy track known as “The Murder” for a scene in this Alfred Hitchock film that depicts Marion Crane getting stabbed to death in a shower.
ANSWER: Psycho
[10m] This composer utilized an alternating “F, F# (“F-sharp”)” theme that repeats and crescendos to represent the tension as a shark creeps up on its victims in the film Jaws.
ANSWER: John Williams [or John Towner Williams]
[10h] The droning score for the sci-fi horror film The Thing was done by this composer. Repeated “B-C-A-low F”sixteen notes on the piano open this composer’s song “The Ecstasy of Gold” from a Sergio Leone film.
ANSWER: Ennio Morricone (“mor-ih-KOH-nay”) (The Sergio Leone film mentioned is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
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