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The Goosebumps Effect  PG

Before we screamed at the music for Jaws or sighed at the score for Brief Encounter, silent movie musicians were turning the classical repertoire into cinema chemistry by choosing music that would fit the mood - but why do high quavery violins produce unease? And who first used them? Did previous generations recognise specific music as dramatic the way we do now? Some of the answers, provided by polymath musicologists Dr Philip Carli and Neil Brand, may surprise you as they try out musical ideas to the best
moments of Hitchcock, Griffith and German cinema.