descriptive music
Example Sentences
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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 course, to write an imitative phrase is quite another matter from writing a successful piece of descriptive music.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.
It should be clearly understood that word-painting is not descriptive music.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.
This is genuine descriptive music for it really sounds ghostly.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
A god in such delineation is twice the size of the ordinary man, and so it is in descriptive music.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
