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

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

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.

One writer speaks of it as a "piece in which a series of double shakes, and the satanic laugh with which it concludes, are so dear to lovers of descriptive music."

From Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians by Rowlands, Walter

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.