Meanings
verbprescore (third-person singular simple present prescores, present participle prescoring, simple past and past participle prescored)
present singular third person prescores · participle present prescoring · participle past prescored · past prescored
- transitiveTo provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score in advance.
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.”
2007 January 7, Jon Burlingame, “Thinking in Colors and Textures, Then Writing in Music”, in New York Times
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prescore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prescore
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“prescore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prescore. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prescore,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prescore.
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