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 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.
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 Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
He gave her the name in Yiddish—Flatterkatchki—a descriptive music in syllables, full of the flutter and quack of the farm-yard.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
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.
