cinematic music
Orchestral film accompaniment
Cinematic music is music composed to evoke the emotional scale and dramatic sweep of film scores—sweeping orchestral arrangements, building crescendos, and epic themes—whether or not it accompanies actual cinema.
The term describes both original film scores and standalone music that sounds like it belongs in a movie: The trailer featured cinematic music with thundering drums and soaring strings.
- soundtrackMusic accompanying visual media
- leitmotifRecurring thematic phrase
- musical motifRecurring thematic fragment
- scoreNumerical standing in competition
- main themePrimary subject or message
composer · suspense · Hans Zimmer · cue · emotional cues · orchestration · diegetic · brass · strings · tension · film · John Williams · musician · themes · emotional · resolution · texture · heroic
- music mediavinyl records, film scores, soundtracks, LP records, CDs
- Film Scoringleitmotif, cue, spotting, click track, motif
- production musicunderscore, cues, soundtrack, soundtracks, film scores
- mood musicfilm scores
cinematic musicminimalist music
Stripped-down, repetitive composition
lo-fi · stripped-down · chamber music · bedroom pop · field recordings
cinematic musicsilence
Total lack of sound
dead air · quiet · ambient noise · room tone · sound design
cinematic musicdialogue
Spoken exchange between parties
spoken word · narration · monologue · voiceover · conversation