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The phrase "incidental music" is from the German Inzidenzmusik, which is defined in the Methuen Drama Dictionary of the Theatre as "music that is specifically written for a play but does not form an integral part of the work". [1] The use of incidental music dates back to ancient Greek drama and possibly before the Greeks. [2]
Another form of theatre music is incidental music, which, as in radio, film and television, is used to accompany the action or to separate the scenes of a play. The physical embodiment of the music is called a score , which includes the music and, if there are lyrics, it also shows the lyrics.
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For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.
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The Shakespearian music of the 19th century was more often associated with the opera house or concert hall than with productions of the plays. In the early 20th century Elizabethan music began to be used as incidental music in a bid for more authenticity. Gradually some new scores were introduced. Vaughan Williams was engaged to write ...
1886 music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (for the Domovoi scene; a different work than either his opera or symphonic ballad of the same name) A Dream Play (Ett drömspel; August Strindberg, 1907) 1915 music by Emil von Reznicek; music by Pancho Vladigerov (an orchestral suite, Op. 13, was published in 1926) music by Wilhelm Stenhammar (died 1927)