programme music
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I believe this is the only instance of his having written actual programme music.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
Up to the time of Beethoven, music for the pianoforte consisted mainly of programme music of the purely descriptive order, that is to say, it was generally imitative of natural or artificial externals.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
Music, too, in some of its manifestations, as in song, the opera, and programme music, has a representative and illustrative character.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Noyes, Carleton Eldredge
They mark the summit of his creative power, and the ripest fruit of that style of programme music that is artistically justified, since Berlioz.
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
His music is not avowed programme music; neither is it, as is much of Schubert's, pure delight in beautiful melodies and sounds.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
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