Music in a drama that is part of the fictional setting
"Source music" redirects here. For the South Korean entertainment company, see Source Music.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera uses the in-universe setting of an opera house to mix diegetic and non-diegetic sources of music and singing. Inside Broadway, 2018.
Diegetic music, also called source music, is music that is part of the fictional world portrayed in a piece of narrative media (such as a film, show, play, or video game) and is thus knowingly performed and/or heard by the characters.[1] This is in contrast to non-diegetic music, which refers to incidental music or a score that is heard by the viewer but not the characters, or in musical theater, when characters are singing in a manner that they would not do in a realistic setting.
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Diegeticmusic, also called source music, is music that is part of the fictional world portrayed in a piece of narrative media (such as a film, show, play...
be "diegetic" or "non-diegetic". These terms are most commonly used in reference to sound in a film. Most soundtrack music in films is non-diegetic; heard...
and covers commissioned for the games as diegeticmusic heard in the world of Fallout. Much of the licensed music used in the Fallout series includes popular...
of songs, some diegetic, some not. A selection of them, with the associated underscore, were released as single CD releases and music videos featuring...
that are dropped into a specific scene in a film for emphasis or as diegeticmusic (e.g., a song playing on a character's car radio), are not considered...
Treasure Hoard scene, while non-diegetic, were performed by the orchestra and feature on the album. Other diegeticmusic was composed by The Elvish Impersonators...
background music (Le Cygne by Camille Saint-Saëns) in the film The Idiots (Idioterne). Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy features two scenes with non-diegeticmusic, several...
features many distinguishing diegetic songs that enrich the detail of the audio mise-en-scène. Some of this diegeticmusic was written by John Williams;...
murder on film. The cinematographer was Carlo di Palma. The film's non-diegeticmusic was scored by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and the English...
Baxter, pp. 129–135. "Richards, Mark. 'DiegeticMusic, Non-DiegeticMusic, and "Source Scoring"' in Film Music Notes, 21 April 2013". May 4, 2013. Archived...
reality". The film also begins a trend within Lynch's work of relating diegeticmusic to dreams, as when the Lady in the Radiator sings "In Heaven" during...
Nation (1915), and What's Opera, Doc? (1957). The "Ride" features as diegeticmusic in Apocalypse Now (1979), where the 1/9 Air Cavalry squadron plays it...
the play, and the youth gives a vigorous Nazi salute in the film. As diegeticmusic, the performance of the song is observed and commented on by the other...
bassist Carol Kaye and Moog pioneer Paul Beaver. A short sequence of diegeticmusic features in the scene set in the ruins of St. Patrick's Cathedral, in...
In order to not violate Dogme 95 rule 2, forbidding the use of non-diegeticmusic, a harmonica player was recorded during the shooting of some scenes...
film, however, because the Dogme rules stipulate that violence, non-diegeticmusic, and period pieces are not permitted. Trier differentiates the musical...
original music or score written or recorded for it, instead using pre-existing and/or library music, often used as diegeticmusic (or source music), often...
Brothers, was the first to include an audio track including non-diegeticmusic and diegeticmusic, but it had only a short sequence of spoken dialogue. This...
motion capture for diegeticmusic vignettes, portraying in-game tribal musicians. The four-hour soundtrack was released via digital music platforms on 10...
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