Soundtrack

Definition: Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Noun

1. Sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film.

Crosswords: Soundtrack

English words defined with "soundtrack": dub, dubbing ♦ silent, silent movie. (references)

Specialty definitions using "soundtrack": daily release and dupe printer ♦ FILM PRINTER ♦ positive printer operator ♦ second audio program. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Soundtrack

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Generally speaking, the term soundtrack refers to the recorded sound in a motion picture.

In terms of film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound.

The term soundtrack is also commonly used to refer to the music used in a movie, and/or to a record album sold containing that music. Sometimes, the music has been recorded just for the film or album (e.g. Saturday Night Fever), though this is rare. In 1916, Victor Schertzinger recorded the first music specifically for use in a motion picture, and releasing soundtracks of songs used in films became standard in the 1930s.

Notable Soundtracks:

American Graffiti (massive-selling double album of rock oldies)
Apocalypse Now (another hit, memorable use of the Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner)
The Bodyguard (by Whitney Houston and others, best selling of all time)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (successful soundtrack, using contemporary hits)
Flashdance (launched several hit songs, surprise hit)
A Hard Day's Night (early rock and roll soundtrack by The Beatles)
The Harder They Come (massively successful soundtrack and movie, launched career of Jimmy Cliff, early mainstream reggae music)
The Jungle Book (first soundtrack in the modern sense, scored by Miklos Rozsa)
Mo' Better Blues (established Gang Starr's reputation and helped launch jazz rap)
O Brother Where Art Thou (surprise bluegrass hit, Grammy winner)
Saturday Night Fever (massive hit mostly by the Bee Gees, brought disco to the mainstream)
Shaft (massive hit by Isaac Hayes, his biggest record)
Star Wars (hugely popular movie, and music by John Williams that became the best selling score-only soundtrack of all time)
The Stoned Age (early teen film focused on a cult band, Blue Oyster Cult)
That's the Way of the World (film unsuccessful, soundtrack a huge hit for Earth, Wind & Fire)
Till the Clouds Roll by (soundtrack and film inspired by life of Jerome Kern, early use of the release of a soundtrack to promote a film)
Maceo (film showing summary of three Maceo Parker concerts in Cologne; this film and the brilliant soundtrack really catches the atmosphere of those concerts)

The Best-Selling Soundtracks

The Bodyguard 1992 16 times platinum
Saturday Night Fever 1977 15 times
Purple Rain 1984 13 times
Forrest Gump 1994 12 times
(tie) Dirty Dancing 1987, Titanic 1997 11 times
The Lion King 1994 10 times
Top Gun 1986 9 times
(Tie)Grease 1978, Footloose 1984 8 times
Waiting to Exhale 1997 7 times

See also:

List of soundtrack composers

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soundtrack."

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Modern Usage: Soundtrack

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Well, this well-worn copy of the Dreamgirls soundtrack begs to differ. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)
Movie/TV Titles	God Save the Queen: the Soundtrack to the Summer of '77 (2002) The Hollywood Soundtrack Story (1995)
Song Titles	Daily Affirmation Theme (performing artist: Stuart Saves His Family soundtrack) On The Sunny Side Of The Street (performing artist: Stuart Saves His Family soundtrack) Home On The Range (performing artist: Tokyo Pop soundtrack)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Soundtrack

Domain	Title
Books	Beauty and the Beast Broadway Musical Soundtrack (reference) Big Green Soundtrack (reference) Spanish Pocahontas Soundtrack (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Soundtrack (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Crooked the Movie the Soundtrack (reference) Squint:Movies From the Soundtrack (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Peter Pan (2000 Television Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm - The Animated Movie, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) Primitive Tracks, Soundtrack to Photosynthesis [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) Naqoyqatsi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) Cappadonna's Iron Fist Pillage - The Soundtrack [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Soundtrack".

Play	Caption
	Evil mystery sci-fi style typical of a film soundtrack.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Soundtrack

Author	Quotation
Dick Clark	Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Soundtrack

"Soundtrack" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soundtrack" is used about 171 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	171	23,814

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Soundtrack

Expression using "soundtrack": add a soundtrack to. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "soundtrack": drinking-soundtrack.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Soundtrack

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
soundtrack	5,181	from justin kelly soundtrack	294
2 2 fast furious soundtrack	2,244	save the last dance soundtrack	269
movie soundtrack	2,200	city motion soundtrack	266
old school soundtrack	1,275	2fast 2furious soundtrack	266
soundtrack lyrics	975	lizzie mcguire movie soundtrack	265
2 bad boy soundtrack	928	chicago soundtrack	260
matrix reloaded soundtrack	920	angel charlies full soundtrack throttle	257
the matrix soundtrack	603	lizzie mcguire soundtrack	245
italian job soundtrack	565	almighty bruce soundtrack	243
hulk soundtrack	484	bad boy ii soundtrack	212
8 mile soundtrack	475	chick hot soundtrack	209
daredevil soundtrack	409	american pie soundtrack	207
remember soundtrack walk	398	drumline soundtrack	203
the fast and the furious soundtrack	376	national security soundtrack	203
hollywood homicide soundtrack	363	two week notice soundtrack	203
just married soundtrack	358	2 2 fast furious lyrics soundtrack	203
movie old school soundtrack	349	shrek soundtrack	203
charlies angel soundtrack	336	ghost ship soundtrack	193
damned queen soundtrack	317	hole soundtrack	192
moulin rouge soundtrack	301	romeo juliet soundtrack	184
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Soundtrack

Language		Translations for "soundtrack"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fonogram (phonogram). (various references)

Bulgarian		камион с високоговорител, звуков запис към филм. (various references)

Chinese		�"�影声迹. (various references)

Czech		zvukový záznam, zvuková stopa. (various references)

German		tonstreifen (soundtracks). (various references)

Greek		ηχητική ζώνη ταινίασ. (various references)

Hungarian		hangsáv (sound track), hangbarázda (track). (various references)

Italian		colonna sonora. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		サンケア指数 (belt, carefree, Saint-Simonism, San Diego, sand, sandal, sandwich, sandwich man, Sankei Sports, Sanskrit, sans-souci, Santa Clara, Santa Claus, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Maria, sun deck, sun protection index, sundae, sunset, sunshade, sunshine, suntan, suntan oil, Suntory, Suntory Hall, syndicalism, syndicalist, thunder, thunderbird), サイン曲線 (ca et la, commercial jingle, saccharin, sack, sack dress, sacrifice, sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, saddle, sadism, sadist, sadistic, sado, sadomasochism, Sahara, sanatorium, sanitary, sanitary napkin, sash, Saskatchewan, Satan, satellite, satellite computer, satellite office, satellite station, satellite studio, satin, satisfaction, Saturday night special, Saturn, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, sauna, sax, saxophone, sine curve, sinusoid, skirt with suspender, soccer, soccer coach, sound, sound box, sound business, sound effects, sound logo, sound man, soundinterface, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southern Cross, southpaw, success, success story, sudden death, suggest, suggestion, suspend, suspended game, suspenders, suspense, suspense drama, suspension, sustaining program, Thousand Island). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		サントラ , サウンドトラック . (various references)

Korean		사운�"� 트랙. (various references)

Manx		sheean-lorg. (various references)

Pig Latin		oundtracksay

Portuguese		pista sonora. (various references)

Russian		звуковая дорожка (sound track, sound-track). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zvučna traka. (various references)

Spanish		banda sonora. (various references)

Swedish		ljudspår. (various references)

Ukrainian		фонограма (phonogram), звукова доріжка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Soundtrack

Derivations
	Words beginning with "soundtrack": soundtracks. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Soundtrack"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "soundtrack" (pronounced sou"ndtra'k or sou"ntra'k)
5	-d t r a' k	sidetrack.
4	-t r a' k	amtrack, backtrack, racetrack.
3	-r a' k	wisecrack.
4	-t r a' k	amtrack, backtrack, racetrack, sidetrack.
3	-r a' k	wisecrack.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Soundtrack

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-k-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: candours, courants, crankous, outdrank, outranks, rotundas.
	-3 letters: astound, candors, candour, cantors, cartons, conatus, contras, costard, courant, cratons, crusado, custard, korunas, outrank, rotunda, santour, surcoat, toucans, tundras, turacos, uncorks, undocks, unstack, untacks.
	-4 letters: acorns, actors, adorns, around, candor, cantor, cantos, cantus, carton, castor, contra, cornua, cornus, costar, cotans, counts, courts, cranks, craton, croaks, daunts.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-k-n-o-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: soundtracks.
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