programme music
Britishnoun
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The Eagle is remarkable for its programme music aspect in the light of MacDowell's later works, for in these it is perfected suggestion and not realism that we find.
From Edward MacDowell by John F. Porte
There has never been, in this country at least, so thorough an attempt to collate the facts of programme music....
From Education and the Higher Life by J. L. Spalding
This was a little too much even for the pianist, who was destined to become the supreme master of programme music, so he made a speech.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
Berlioz had been the founder of programme music, and his leading works had been produced during the second quarter of the century, but their full force was not recognized until later.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
Before taking up the works themselves, let us consider the form of which it is the soul, the principle of programme music.
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
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