Home › Entities › functional music › background music

background music

music in a film, video game or other medium that establishes mood
Class type of: functional music Q1353390

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
music genre
Subclass of
functional music[2]
Different from
elevator music[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en weather music en environmental music en lift music en piped music en background music en BGM da baggrundsmusik de Hintergrundmusik de atmosphärische Musik es musica de fondo es música de fondo fa موسیقی پس‌زمینه fi taustamusiikki fr musique d'ambiance fr musique de supermarché he מוזיקת אווירה hu háttérzene it musica di sottofondo ja バック・ミュージック ja BGM
🔖 Identifiers · 13
AllMusic genre/style ID
ma0000006329
Every Noise at Once ID
backgroundmusic, bgm, musicadefondo
FAST ID
1920430
Freebase ID
/m/025td0t
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
piped-music
KBpedia ID
BackgroundMusic
Latvian National Encyclopedia Online ID
139778
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
gf2014027186
National Library of Latvia ID
000337000
Quora topic ID
Background-Music
UNSPSC code
55111509
YSO ID
1807
Show all 13 identifiers +1
Zhihu topic ID
19815166

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

🔗 Connections
← Has use 2
Seeburg 1000, background music system
Different from 1
elevator music
Examples 1
Tafelmusik
Instance of 1
music genre
← Different from 1
elevator music
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Summary

background music is a music genre[1].

Related Entities

background music system Seeburg 1000

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). background music. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/background-music
MLA “background music.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 6 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/background-music.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_background-music_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{background music}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/background-music}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-06}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): background music — https://4ort.xyz/entity/background-music (retrieved 2026-11-06)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/background-music · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → music genre
    Aliases → —
    Different from → elevator music
    Subclass of → functional music
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ YSO ID: 1807, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.