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
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 Walter Rowlands
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 W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
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 Arthur Hervey
This is genuine descriptive music for it really sounds ghostly.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding
