Trailers, Tonality, and the Force of Nostalgia By Frank Lehman
Trailers, Tonality, and the Force of Nostalgia Film trailers are like hyperactive microcosms of the movies they herald. Their formal compression and immediacy makes these minifilms terrific laboratories in which to explore how musical structure can serve expressive ends. But trailer music isn’t just shrunken down movie music. It speaks its own dialect, a kind…
