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
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
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)
His specialty as a composer was in the domain of descriptive music, his genius was for the picturesque.
From Great Violinists And Pianists by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)
The orchestral descriptive music of this play within a play is beautiful and interesting.
From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel
