stage music
Live performance score
Stage music is music composed or performed for theatrical productions—plays, musicals, operas, and other live performances.
The term distinguishes music written for the stage from concert hall, film, or recorded music: She spent her career writing stage music for Broadway.
It encompasses everything from full orchestral scores to incidental music between scenes.
- ariaOperatic solo piece
- underscoreLow horizontal text mark
- sound designerCreates production's auditory landscape
- sound cueNoise signaling action
- chorusSingers performing together
interlude · entr'acte · scene change · curtain call · conductor · cue · musical theater · orchestration · leitmotif · overture · opening number · stinger · opera · lyricist · house lights · composer · libretto · Broadway
stage musicfilm music
Audio composed for cinema
movie soundtrack · film score · film scoring · studio recording
stage musicbackground music
Audio meant to accompany
ambient music · chamber music · elevator music · incidental music · street music