incidental music
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The show’s theme was a cocktail culture cover of “Crazy Train”; incidental music transitioning one scene to the next was intentionally reminiscent of 1950s sitcoms.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025
The closest thing, a staging of Mendelssohn’s incidental music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” was canceled last minute for supposed scheduling difficulties.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023
The evening opened with “The Consecration of the House,” an overture Beethoven wholly revised in 1822 from incidental music originally composed a decade earlier for August von Kotzebue’s play, “The Ruins of Athens.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
When pop stars weren't available, he went back to his first job - writing incidental music for films and TV shows.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2021
Lulli composed the incidental music for a ballet, La Princesse d’Elide, which formed part of Moli�re’s divertissement, “Les plaisirs de l’�le enchant�e,” written for a great festival at Versailles on the 7th of May 1664.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
