The Force Awakens Article on the music for the three 'Force Awakens' trailers

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Long-time JWFan contributor Frank Lehman writes about the music in the three trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in a special article for the American Musicology Society:

While the manipulation (and manipulativeness) of themes in these trailers tugs the listeners backwards, there are signs of our current musical times too. This is most apparent in the increasingly obvious use of digital processing, and decreasingly “old-fashioned” sound to the trailers. [...] These are mannerisms like exceptionally reverberant piano notes and indistinct bass thuds, injecting extra punch into Williams’s music like sonic steroidal supplements.

Full article: Trailers, Tonality, and the Force of Nostalgia, by Frank Lehman

[Jay 43,029]

Nice!

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"Hans Zimmer and His Epigones" would be a great name for a band.

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Kind of annoying that even a seemingly purely academic bit of writing can't avoid derision-laden terms like "epigones" to cast away those terrible non-traditional composers.

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what's an epigone?

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[Loert 3,002]

There are a lot of Zimmer epigones out there...but let's not confuse them with some of the very talented people working at RCP.

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Name them!

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