Definition of Incidental music

1. Noun. Music composed to accompany the action of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes.


Definition of Incidental music

1. Noun. (music) Music that is played as a background to a film, television programme, video game, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Incidental music

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"Overture, entr'actes, and incidental music to J. Comyns 23. ... Overture, entr'actes, anil incidental music to Stephen Phillips'» The Lost Heir, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... and to ' Love laughs at Locksmiths,' besides some incidental music in ' Aladdin,' performed at Covent Garden, a set of six songs dedicated to Lady Lake, ..."

3. Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: With a Bibliography of English by James Duff Brown (1886)
"Overture and incidental music (partly from Storace) to the " Iron Chest," ... Overture, entr'acte, choruses, march, dirge, and incidental music to "The Cup ..."

4. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"Of smaller dramatic works including the melodrama " Preciosa," the overture, and incidental music for " Turandot," airs Frenchman admires thee, ..."

5. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"... with incidental music by Ci. H. well, at the Lyceum Theatre, London, in July, 1827. Tue cast included " O." Smith. Cornish Miners (The). ..."

6. A Picture of Modern Spain: Men and Music by John Brande Trend (1921)
"... incidental music MUSIC AND MODERN REVIVALS IT is strangely difficult in the course of ordinary conversation, in Spain or in England, to make any one see ..."

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