film music terminology

LEITMOTIF – use of a musical phrase to identify with a particular character, place or idea.

Acousmatic sound - sound one hears without seeing their originating cause   Anempathetic Sound - music or sound effects that seems to exhibit conspicuous indifference to what is goingon in the film's plot Empathetic Sound  - music or sound effects whose mood matches the mood of the action Chronography   -  the stabilisation of projection speedmadecinema an art of time