Bernard Herman Sketch for North by Northwest

[Magister Tekton]

An interesting video of Herman's sketch with the music performed for comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-08bV-c-vs. NxNW Draft.

I'm intrigued by the elegant execution of complexity ...yet only three staves used. Such efficiency!

I've screen-captured it page by page and intend to transcribe it in Musescore someday for study....maybe for the organ. Or maybe to pick-apart for small ensemble orchestration.

[JJP]

That’s likely not his sketch. That looks like a reduced conductor part, probably done from the fully orchestrated score. They were fairly common in previous years, but are less common today outside broadway.