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 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.

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)

Of his descriptive music by far the greater part is written for the piano; so that, at the start, a very definite limitation is imposed upon magnitude of plan.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence