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incidental music

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incidental music

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.



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Hitch may not be ``Blonde's'' central character, but the director's stamp is on every element of the production, from Ian Dickinson's incidental music to the swooping video sequences credited to William Dudley and Ian Galloway for Mesmer.
For example, the opening episode of an Egyptian series about an Alexandrian wheeler-dealer went on the air with an incomplete sound mix, so that the dialog in important expository scenes was completely inaudible under a blaring track of incidental music.
Since 1975 was an LP release, the vinyl couldn't fit in Velma's jealousy number, "I Know a Girl," or much incidental music or even all the verses to "I Can't Do It Alone" and "Razzle Dazzle.
 
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