dramatic music
Swelling orchestral soundtrack
Dramatic music is music that accompanies or heightens emotional moments in film, television, theater, or other media.
The term often appears in stage directions or scripts: dramatic music plays.
Online, it's become a humorous cue suggesting something momentous or suspenseful is happening: Me: opens fridge. Dramatic music.
- overtureIntroductory orchestral piece
- crescendoGradual increase in loudness
- full orchestraComplete instrumental performing group
- tremoloRapid tonal wavering
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
rising tension · dramatic pause · chase scene · leitmotif · film score · symphonic poem · orchestration · timpani · string section · Dies Irae · opera · musical theater · foreboding · heroism · stinger · tragedy · despair · emotional climax
- mood musicfilm scores
- soap operassoap opera, telenovela, melodrama, cliffhanger, amnesia
- soundtracksfilm score, original score, main theme, end credits, orchestral score
- melodramavillain, heroine, hero, damsel in distress, happy ending
- production musicunderscore, cues, soundtrack, soundtracks, film scores
- operaopera, aria, arias, soprano, tenor
dramatic musicambient music
Tonal, moodscape-focused genre
muzak · elevator music · background music · soft music · easy listening
dramatic musicambient music
Tonal, moodscape-focused genre
background music · incidental music · muzak · hold music · lo-fi beats