Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly doesn’t have strawberries like Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries. But it does have an aging man reflecting on his life as he travels to collect a lifetime achievement award.

From the thumping beat of John Williams’ “Raiders of the Lost Ark March” to the staccato screech of “Psycho,” film scores have wrapped audiences in worlds of magic and menace. The New Mexico ...