| film score | All of the music accompanying a film.
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| Mickey Mousing | Musically mimicking or accenting an action.
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| source or diagetic music | Music heard by characters in the film as well as by the film audience.
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| functional or nondiagetic music | Music heard by the audience only.
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| sound track | All of the dialogue, sound effects, and music of a film.
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| classical Hollywood film score | Lush orchestral scores particularly associated with films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
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| fanfare | A brief, dramatic phrase or piece for brass instruments (and perhaps percussion), with the character of an announcement or a celebration.
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| theremin | The earliest electronic musical instrument.
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| quarter tones | Tones lying halfway between half steps.
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| new age | A soft rock style providing soothing, repetitious blocks of gentle, unassuming sounds produced by synthesizers or acoustic folk instruments.
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| temp | Temporary film score, composed of existing music independent of the film, offered to demonstrate to a film’s composer the type of music desired.
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