incidental music
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The incidental music, though, offers needed theatrical context.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
In the middle of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s suite of incidental music for “Much Ado About Nothing,” there’s a march meant to accompany Dogberry, Shakespeare’s comic constable, and his fellow watchmen.
From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2024
The evening opened with “The Consecration of the House,” an overture Beethoven wholly revised in 1822 from incidental music originally composed a decade earlier for August von Kotzebue’s play, “The Ruins of Athens.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
The calliope-heavy incidental music sounds like a carousel.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2021
I can find no trace of contemporary incidental music for this play.
From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher
