soundtrack

82 3.5

Music, voices, and noises recorded to go with a film

noun
/ˈsaʊndtræk/

: banda sonora

So I just listened to the "Phantom of the Opera" soundtrack for weeks.
soundtrack music
movie soundtrack
film soundtrack

I had to mute the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater soundtrack, even though, Yeah.

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Examples

Hiplife music became the Ghana-made soundtrack of a generation of urban youth.

Academic text (2009)
Since the beginning of recorded film soundtracks, many Indian film songs have had Western orchestrations.

Academic text (2006)
Then all she wanted to do was play the soundtrack from the movie.
Come on for his work on the soundtrack of Soul.
I am going to go put that soundtrack on repeat on the speakers.

Unbox Therapy
So YouTube red subscribers get the soundtrack and the series together.
Another approach involves students creating their own soundtrack to accompany a novel.

Academic text (2006)
To many of us South Africans, he was the soundtrack to our lives.

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
The soundtrack to my dreams is Fred playing arpeggios.

Ma Belle, My Beauty (2021)
She played the soundtrack of the movie during the party to set the mood.

Surface Forms

soundtrack singular

soundtracks plural

Morphology

soundtrack = sound + track (transparent) = sound + track

The meaning — a 'track' of recorded 'sound' for a film — is a direct, productive combination of the two nouns.

Etymology

Soundtrack comes from sound and track, where track means a 'path' or 'strip' and is also the common word for a 'track' meaning a 'song' on an album. So a soundtrack is the recorded 'sound' that runs along a film or the narrow strip that holds the sound, which is why we call a movie's music and effects a soundtrack.