Diegetic music

"Source music" redirects here. For the South Korean entertainment company, see Source Music.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera uses the in-universe setting of an opera house to mix diegetic and non-diegetic sources of music and singing. Inside Broadway, 2018.

Diegetic music, also called source music, is music that is part of the fictional world portrayed in a piece of narrative media (such as a film, show, play, or video game) and is thus knowingly performed and/or heard by the characters.[1] This is in contrast to non-diegetic music, which refers to incidental music or a score that is heard by the viewer but not the characters, or in musical theater, when characters are singing in a manner that they would not do in a realistic setting.

  1. ^ Dillon, Kym (2011-09-18). "The Art of Scoring". IGN. Archived from the original on September 24, 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-01.