background music
: music to accompany the dialogue or action of a motion picture or radio or television drama
Recent Examples on the Web
//The background music may change, but the song remains the same.
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Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, "'White Riot': Film Review | London 2019," 1 Nov. 2019
//Once the season ends, that background music will become the main act.
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Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, "Pending free agency: One can only wonder how much it has affected Red Sox this season," 8 Sep. 2019
//Its lack of traditional NFL graphics hurts it credibility, the camera work for its remote experts is inconsistent, and the background music—in my opinion—can be distracting.
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Jacob Feldman, SI.com, "ESPNews Odds-on Favorite to Become ESPN’s Home for Gambling Content," 12 Sep. 2019
//Videos become background music for rapid eye movement.
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San Diego Union-Tribune, "Ric Ocasek of The Cars spoke candidly in our 1984 interview," 16 Sep. 2019
//In a promotional video, featuring soft piano background music and scenes of girls soldering, sketching, and kicking ass in white lab coats, Hasbro notes that only ten per cent of patent holders are women.
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Mary Pilon, The New Yorker, "The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly," 11 Sep. 2019
//Those dreams, at least, have not gone out of fashion; even the background music in this show, by such contemporary French D.J.s as Air and Mirwais, conveys the enduring appeal for new artists of earlier Paris night life.
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Jason Farago, New York Times, "Back to the Future With Pierre Cardin’s Space-Age Fashion," 22 Aug. 2019
//For most of the first three hours, there were few obligations or distractions beyond background music.
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Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, "Cleveland Orchestra relives Fourth of July with idyllic ‘Star-Spangled Spectacular’," 7 Aug. 2019
//So embedded in today’s cosmic background music, on some massively undetectable level, is the 3.7-billion-year-old data of the original universe soundtrack.
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Los Angeles Times, "Review: At Mt. Wilson, cosmic sound art reaches far beyond a mere moon landing," 21 July 2019
First Known Use of background music
1928, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries near background music
More Synonyms and Antonyms ofbackground music
1
the physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed
- they got married on a mountain top with the sunset as background
2
the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set
- the background of that movie is the World War II era