How to Use incidental music in a Sentence

incidental music

noun

• The incidental music, by local band the North Country, reinstates some of the emotion that the arch directing strips away.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• The mature Mendelssohn 16 years later added about 45 minutes of incidental music to go with Shakespeare’s play.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Sound mixing is the art of adjusting various tracks — the score, the dialogue, the incidental music, the sound effects, etc.
  — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 22 Feb. 2018
• Felix Mendelssohn’s overture and incidental music—that seemed to follow him through life.
  — Jennifer Homans, The New York Review of Books, 17 Jan. 2019
• Grieg wrote them as incidental music for Ibsen’s epic about a gloomy globetrotter, for a major revival of the play in Norway (where both the playwright and the composer hailed from) in 1876.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 4 Dec. 2021
• Soon, Bob Mothersbaugh was enlisted to compose the show’s incidental music and score.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2021
• The cast is mostly young, and the actors themselves perform Palmer Hefferan’s incidental music in a cheerfully rough-and-ready manner.
  — Terry Teachout, WSJ, 20 July 2017
• In recent decades, the laugh track has become unfashionable, while incidental music remains essential to TV and film.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
• Another rule is that there should be no incidental music or traditional score.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021
• Yet, even with another 88 handwritten pages of original incidental music, Mr. Lowe was still short.
  — Matt Trueman, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• This brief and somewhat more brooding work, conceived as incidental music for a play, again sees Smith in prime lyrical mode, masterfully articulating a poignant mythical scene.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 9 Apr. 2021
• Although the medium of incidental music largely disappeared by the first third of the 20th century, preludes, interludes and dances — even background music — accompanied spoken plays as far back as ancient Greece.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 20 Feb. 2021
• Allen is a theater composer, a guy who writes everything from incidental music for dramatic presentations to full-fledged musicals.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 6 June 2019
• Great incidental music by Matt Orenstein, incidentally.
  — Max Maller, Chicago Reader, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024