What is Soundtrack?
[[File:35mm film with digital soundtrack.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Simulated 35mm film with soundtracks. the outer strips on both sides are the [[digital]] soundtracks}}]] A '''soundtrack''', also written '''sound track''',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sound%20track | title=sound track - definition of sound track by Merriam-Webster.com | publisher=Merriam-Webster | access-date=2014-08-14}}</ref> can be recorded [[music]] that is [[Synchronization|synchronized]] to the images of a [[motion picture]]. Soundtracks can also be part of a [[book]], [[television program]], [[radio program]] or [[video game]]. A [[commercial]]ly released soundtrack [[album]] can be of music from a film or TV show. The term can also mean the physical area of [[photographic film]] that contains the synchronized recorded sound. == History == In 1896 when people saw the first [[motion picture]] someone played music to go along with it.<ref name=SlobinVII>Mark Slobin, ''Global Soundtracks: Worlds of Film Music'' (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008), p. vii</ref> This was the era of the [[silent movie]] meaning only that the [[actor]]s did not speak. A [[musician]] played different [[music]] to show [[drama]], the [[Character actor|character]] types and the [[wikt:storyline|storyline]].<ref name=SlobinVII/> There was music to introduce [[war]], [[Native American|indians]], [[cowboy]]s and other types to the scenes. There was special music to introduce the [[hero]]. Even the [[villain]] had his own musical pieces to identify him. Finally, in 1927 moviemakers figured out how to include a soundtrack on the film. The movie ''[[The Jazz Singer (1927 movie)|The Jazz Singer]]'' was the first musical where the audience could hear [[Al Jolson]] perform.<ref name=SlobinVII/> == References == {{commons}} {{wiktionary}} {{reflist}} {{Filmmaking}} {{movie-stub}} [[Category:Movie terminology]] [[Category:Sound]]