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

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 Hervey, Arthur

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

From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur

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

The notes are reprinted in Nottebohm's "Zweite Beethoveniana," but I borrow Sir George Grove's translation: Beethoven's notes on descriptive music.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward