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La musique à votre image

15:51 Jul 11, 2011
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French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / background music
French term or phrase: La musique à votre image
La musique à votre image
This is the title of an article describing the work of a company that sets out to provide music for films, TV & radio, documentaries, etc., in other words the music to go with the pictures. The best thing I can come up with is 'Music to match'. It has to be something snappy as it is virtually their advertising slogan.
janisct
Local time: 22:07


Summary of answers provided
4 +1in your image.
Najib Aloui
3 +1Your kind of music
sporran
4fitting music
Sarah Bessioud
3 +1Music tuned to your images
Verginia Ophof
3 +1Images to music
Sam Cogdell
3 +1Your image in music
Jessica Edwards
4Turn your images into music!/ Music to your eyes!
reorient
4"music to watch films by"
bigmimi
3custom-selected music
MatthewLaSon
3scores to-match
bigmimi


Discussion entries: 4





  

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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Your kind of music


Explanation:
Just a suggestion to get the ball rolling!

sporran
France
Local time: 23:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: That's an excellent start! Thank you


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Yolanda Broad: Yes, that's the right meaning.
3 hrs
  -> Thanks Yolanda:-)
neutral  Tony.J.A.@DT: I don't know is this would be an accurate description of this service which is matching musical tunes (or whatever is it) to an image, and not just selecting a tune for yourself.
11 hrs
  -> You may well be right, but please remember this is a title, not a description. In any case, I don't even presume to think that this is the best suggestion, it was only the first one posted:-)
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
fitting music


Explanation:
Fitting music- fitting with the pictures as well as the customer's image.

Alternatively, "music to suit" or "say it with music" may be appropriate.

Sarah Bessioud
Germany
Local time: 23:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: 'Say it with music' sounds good to me!

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
in your image.


Explanation:
The meaning of the slogan is double. At first reading, it means: music that is like you, that is a replica of your thoughts, feelings etc. as with "man made in God's image"...And then you have another interpretation, one that makes the preposition "à" mean "for", "for the purpose of" or "destined to" ...Keeping the idiom would preserve, slightly altered, the double meaning...

Najib Aloui
Local time: 22:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sam Cogdell
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Sam.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Music tuned to your images


Explanation:


Music meets images

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 15:07
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony.J.A.@DT: this would be my choice
10 hrs
  -> Thank you Jose !!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
custom-selected music


Explanation:
Hello,

Just a try...

I suppose that "your" is implied in my translation.

I hope this helps.

MatthewLaSon
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Images to music


Explanation:
Another possibility. Looks like *musical imaging* is already taken....

Sam Cogdell
United States
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Shiner: A more sophisticated option
37 mins
  -> Thanks, Helen.
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Your image in music


Explanation:
Another suggestion. It certainly fits the "advertising slogan" tone.

Jessica Edwards
France
Local time: 23:07
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Verginia Ophof
19 hrs
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
scores to-match


Explanation:
"score" signifie musique de film en anglais.

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Note added at 9 heures (2011-07-12 01:43:22 GMT)
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ou :"customized scores".

bigmimi
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: French
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Turn your images into music!/ Music to your eyes!


Explanation:
As it is, as you say, a slogan, I think one could opt for a somewhat freer translation and turn it into an instigation. I think it would sound quite imaginative like this, as it lends itself to associations with sayings like "this is music to my ears". Maybe you could even be so bold to transform this into "Music to your eyes!"


    Reference: http://www.google.com.tr/search?hl=tr&rls=com.microsoft%3Atr...
reorient
Local time: 00:07
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 12
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1 day 22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"music to watch films by"


Explanation:
fait allusion à un célèbre thème de Jazz et ferait donc un bon slogan publicitaire par association

bigmimi
Local time: 17:07
Native speaker of: French
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