incidental music

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Definition of incidental music in English English dictionary: Music that is played as a background to a film, television programme, video game, etc
The incidental music helped give the programme its evocative atmosphere.; {i} background music used in a movie or play; In a film, play, or television programme, incidental music is music that is played to create a particular atmosphere. Music composed to accompany the action or dialogue of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes or acts. music played during a play, film etc that helps produce a particular feeling. Music composed to accompany a play. The practice dates back to ritualistic Greek drama, and it is thus connected to the use of music in other kinds of ritual. Sometimes limited to the role of introduction or interlude (setting a mood or a historical period, for example), it may also accompany spoken dialogue (see melodrama). Film and television music is sometimes considered incidental music; music composed to accompany the action of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes; Attributive form of incidental music, noun