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| | Incidental music. (from Bizet, Georges) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | music written to accompany or point up the action or mood of a dramatic performance on stage, film, radio, television, or recording; to serve as a transition between parts of the action; or to introduce or close the performance. |
 | | Because it is written to enhance a nonmusical medium, most incidental music makes little impression on public taste. |
 | | in a narrow sense, the music of the Turkish military establishment, particularly of the Janissaries, an elite corps of royal bodyguards (disbanded 1826); in a broad sense, a particular repertory of European music the military aspect of which derives from conscious imitation of the music of the Janissaries. |
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