Film and Media Scoring Technique Dictionary

Music written to picture. Spotting, timing, thematic writing, tempo maps and the vocabulary of a scoring session.

5 sections, 84 terms planned

• 🎬
  Spotting and Cues
  18 terms

  Spotting session, cue numbering, source music, temp track

• ⏱️
  Timing and Sync
  20 terms

  Hit points, streamers, click track, tempo map, free timing

• 🎵
  Thematic Writing
  16 terms

  Leitmotif, theme transformation, underscore, stinger

• 🎚️
  Mixing and Stems
  16 terms

  Stems, dialogue ducking, mockup, orchestral samples, delivery formats

• 🎭
  Genre Language
  14 terms

  Action, drama, horror, documentary and game scoring conventions

This encyclopedia is being written. In the meantime, explore the violin technique dictionary, which is complete with 230 defined terms, browse the rest of the music dictionary, or use our free practice tools.