AOS Music for Media

• leitmotif 


  a repeated melody which describes a character, place or thing
• underscore 


  music that accompanies action
• cue


  a signal for them to begin playing
• soundtrack 


  recorded sound synchronised to the images
• Mickey-mousing


  syncs the accompanying music with the actions on screen
• digetic music


  sounds the characters can hear
• non-digetic 


  sounds the characters can't hear (audience only)
• source music


  sound that is coming from a source on screen such as a TV or radio
• cluster 


  a chord built by at least 3 adjacent tones of a scale
• polarised texture


  2 melody parts high in pitch, bass is low, no inner filling from other instruments
• drone 


  sustained sounds, notes, tone clusters
• additive rythms


  grouping rhythms together in unequal groups

  Eg. a group of 8 quavers could be spilt into 3, 3 and 2
• cross rhythms


  2 conflicting rhythms are heard together
• rhythmic layering


  layering/ combining rhythms on top of each other