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

It is descriptive music, tonal painting if you will; but the color is local or national.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.

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)

The orchestral descriptive music of this play within a play is beautiful and interesting.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

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.