descriptive music
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Though not overtly descriptive music, its four movements, playing for a little under 20 minutes, imaginatively evoke the feeling of four distinct times in the passage of a day.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2012
Of his descriptive music by far the greater part is written for the piano; so that, at the start, a very definite limitation is imposed upon magnitude of plan.
From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman
The English have made much of Haydn's descriptive music in the accompanied recitatives.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
Fundamentally different the one from the other, each of these compositions comes under the category of descriptive music, and is intended to illustrate a special subject.
From Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey
It is descriptive music, tonal painting if you will; but the color is local or national.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Philip H. Goepp
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