What is Diegetic music?
'''Diegetic music''' or source music is a form of music in movies and dramas. It is when the audience hears the same thing the characters hear. In storytelling, it is called diegesis. [[Non-diegetic music]] is when the characters cannot hear the music.<ref>David Neumeyer. “Diegetic/Nondiegetic: A Theoretical Model.” Music and the Moving Image, vol. 2, no. 1, 2009, pp. 26–39. JSTOR, <nowiki>http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/musimoviimag.2.1.0026</nowiki>. Accessed 1 Jul. 2022.</ref> Diegetic sound can include noises of objects or voices in the story.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Diegetic and non-diegetic sounds|url=https://filmsound.org/terminology/diegetic.htm|access-date=2022-07-01|website=filmsound.org}}</ref> == Film Music == Diegetic music is common in movies. The characters in a film hear something and the audience hears the same thing. If a character in the film turns on a CD player and listens to music and the audience hears it, this is called diegetic. In the film ''[[Titanic (1997 movie)|Titanic]]'', a string quartet plays music while the ship is sinking. The people on the ship hear the music and the audience hears the music.<ref>{{Citation|title=Titanic (1997) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/characters/nm0263323|access-date=2022-07-01}}</ref> In ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', helicopters are raiding a village. The leading colonel turns on a loud stereo with the music [[Die Walküre|The Ride of the Valkyries]] by [[Richard Wagner]]. The soldiers hear this music and the audience hear it too.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-10-20|title=Apocalypse Now and Sound Design|url=https://engl245umd.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/apocalypse-now-and-sound-design/|access-date=2022-07-01|website=English 245: Film Form and Culture|language=en}}</ref> When Marty Mcfly plays his guitar in ''[[Back to the Future]]'', both the characters in the film and the viewers hear it. Marty plays music from the future. The listeners in the film do not know the music, but the music is still diegetic.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Priewe|first=Marc|dat