Trailer music is a type of production music: it’s the background music used in movie previews or teasers. Editors looking for the perfect music to soundtrack their trailer are hoping to create anticipation around the film and to promote the film’s story succinctly to audiences. Music for this form of media can sometimes be heavy on sound design and often features hybrid orchestral instrumentation, depending on the type of trailer and film subject.
Creating a captivating yet concise film trailer can be difficult, and finding the right music is essential to building suspense and excitement for a movie’s release.
Types of trailer music
- Popular music or Commercial music: these are songs you might hear on the radio or listen to at home. Licensing these songs is often quite expensive and might be cost prohibitive for many productions.
- Classical music: classical music is a popular choice because it’s often public domain, meaning no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Check out our take on classical music with a trailerized twist, Epic Trailerized Classics.
- Library Music: these intentionally imitate recognisable popular music, but at a much more accessible price point. We have a large selection of incredible music that can be used to impart a similar vibe to the top Billboard hits.
- Action trailer music: these orchestral scores and electronic hybrid cues are thrilling and aggressive. Our stock music library has tons of options to get hearts pumping during every action-packed second.
- Fantasy and adventure trailer music: music for fantasy films create an atmosphere of fun and mystery and will whisk audiences away on feel-good, exciting adventures.
- Superhero trailer music: everyone loves a good superhero movie! These tracks impart superhuman strength, hidden power, a sense of terrifying evil and, of course, victory.
- Sci-fi trailer music: electronic and synth-driven orchestral hybrid is essential to help build alien worlds and alternate dimensions.
- Emotional and dramatic trailer music: orchestral albums with choral elements deliver powerful emotions and heightened drama.
- Horror and thriller trailer music: twisted and eerie tracks feature dissonant strings and aggressive percussive elements. These slowly building tracks will make audiences jump out of their seats.
Why choose us for trailer music?
Our 80,000 plus catalogue of library music speaks for itself: it’s authentically crafted by artists and composers from all over the world. However, if that’s not enough to convince you, check out our label dedicated solely to trailer music, Fired Earth Music. We’ve also curated a trailer music collection that spans the breadth of our entire catalogue, featuring dozens of albums sorted by film genre.
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