incidental music
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- noun
- /ˌɪnsɪˈdɛntl ˈmjuzɪk/
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música incidental
- The film featured beautiful incidental music that enhanced the emotional impact of each scene.
- write incidental music
Examples
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In this group, I put film composers and people who write incidental music.
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Jordan: For score, however, some of the incidental music during 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' is outrageous.
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Anitra's dance is from Grieg's incidental music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt.
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As the actors performed their dialogue, the incidental music filled the quiet moments between their lines.
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The director decided to add incidental music to create a more immersive experience during the play.
Synonyms
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5.1
A musical part that supports a singer or solo instrument
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5.8
A short performance, often music, performed between parts of a play or concert
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Music that plays quietly with a singer or main tune to support it
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8.5
A short musical or stage piece played between parts of a longer show
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'music composed to accompany a play or film' is directly inferable from combining 'incidental' (secondary, accompanying) with 'music' (organized sound). This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition and the concept of accompanying/secondary music is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will likely understand the MWE.
Etymology
Incidental music comes from the idea of incidental meaning 'on the side' and music that plays beside the action or between scenes. That's why it means 'music written to play during a play or film, or in the pauses between scenes'.