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incidental music

incidental music noun: music that is played as a background to a film, television programme, video game, etc.

Noun

incidental music (uncountable)

  1. Music that is played as a background to a film, television programme, video game, etc.
    • The incidental music helped give the programme its evocative atmosphere.

Questions about incidental music

What does incidental music mean?
Incidental music means music that is played as a background to a film, television programme, video game, etc.
What part of speech is incidental music?
Incidental music is a noun.

Words near incidental music in the dictionary

  1. incident ticket system
  2. incident ticket systems
  3. incidental
  4. incidental expense
  5. incidental expenses
  6. incidental music
  7. incidentally
  8. incidentalness
  9. incidentaloma
  10. incidentalomas
  11. incidentalome

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