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prescore

prescore

English

Verb

prescore (third-person singular simple present prescores, present participle prescoring, simple past and past participle prescored)

  1. (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score in advance.
    • 2007 January 7, Jon Burlingame, “Thinking in Colors and Textures, Then Writing in Music”, in New York Times:
      That’s less the fault of composers than of directors, who commonly prescore their films with temporary music during editing, then frequently expect the final score to emulate that “temp track.”