descriptive music

This is noteworthy inasmuch as it has brought the advocates of descriptive music into an awkward dilemma.

The descriptive music, especially when removed from the tragic parts of the work, shows the composer in his happiest mood.

His specialty as a composer was in the domain of descriptive music, his genius was for the picturesque.

A god in such delineation is twice the size of the ordinary man, and so it is in descriptive music.

It is as well though, in dealing with this subject, to draw a distinction between purely imitative and descriptive music.