incidental music

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While performances of the complete play with the incidental music are rare, a half-hour concert version, also rare but less so, proves effective.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

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

The calliope-heavy incidental music sounds like a carousel.

From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021

Strachan wrote the quiz show's theme and dramatic incidental music with his father Keith.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2021

But a terrible conviction struck me as I stood there bowing repeatedly, that the audience had come prepared for a comic duologue, with incidental music and dances.

From The Black Poodle And Other Tales by Anstey, F.