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
I knew enough of the legend to be able to follow, and moreover I had always heard that Wagner's descriptive music was so wonderful that one understood everything without any text, etc.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
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.
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 Gilman, Lawrence
It is perpetually present, so that at last one comes to think, as I have been compelled to think this long time, that Purcell wrote nothing but descriptive music all his life.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.
