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🪵 Not marked 📝 Not graded 🎬 No background music
unscored

unscored

5.6
Having no background music in a film, play, or scene
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈskɔrd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sin música
  • The opening scene was intentionally unscored to create a sense of realism and tension.

Examples

  • The documentary remained unscored, relying only on natural sounds to tell its story.

  • The film's unscored scenes created a haunting atmosphere.

  • Many directors choose an unscored approach for dramatic moments to let the actors' performances stand out.

  • Why was the play unscored during the emotional moments?

  • The documentary remained unscored, relying only on natural sounds to tell its story.

  • Many directors choose an unscored approach for dramatic moments to let the actors' performances stand out.

  • The opening scene was intentionally unscored to create a sense of realism and tension.

Synonyms

unaccompanied
vsunscored
  • Specialized
1 5.5

Sung or played without other instruments

is about a scene missing background music rather than a solo performance
musicless
vsunscored
5.8

Without music playing, for example only speech or silence

is specific to scenes lacking background music rather than general absence

How Musical

orchestrated
  • Specialized
4.9
unscored
  • Specialized
5.6

Surface Forms

unscored positive

Morphology

unscored = scored (transparent) = un + score + ed

Negation of 'scored' in the sense 'provided with a musical score' is a straightforward, productive use of 'un-'.

Etymology

The word unscored uses un- 'not' plus score, and score also means 'written music' since music is made of marks on a page. So unscored means 'without a musical score', used when a scene or film has no background music.