incidental music
Noun
Meaning
music composed to accompany the action of a drama or to fill intervals between scenes
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There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.
All the incidental music for the 2005 revived series has been composed by Murray Gold and Ben Foster and has been performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from the 2005 Christmas episode " The Christmas Invasion " onwards.
Arthur Sullivan wrote incidental music for the play in 1871.
Jacobs, pp. 28 and 42 His incidental music to The Tempest received an acclaimed premiere at the Crystal Palace just before Sullivan's 20th birthday in April 1862.
He composed a ballet, L'Île Enchantée (1864) and incidental music for a number of Shakespeare plays.
He incorporated the existing Overture into the incidental music, which was used in most stage versions through the 19th century.