descriptive music
Example Sentences
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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 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.
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
The orchestral descriptive music of this play within a play is beautiful and interesting.
From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel
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)
