program music
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A handful of skaters who train with Arutyunyan’s team whizzed by as coaches scrutinized their arm placements, knelt to watch skate movement and replayed the opening notes of one skater’s program music.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022
Operated through the hospital’s Child Life program, music therapy helps children and their families cope with stresses related to a child’s illness and the adjustment of a hospital stay.
From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2016
Reiterating what she had explained in a recent interview, Ms. Wolfe said that she had never been much interested in program music.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2011
You might think that writing program music automatically provides a composer with a structure for a long piece.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2011
Although program music in its literal sense dates back several centuries, Beethoven—far more than was customary before—used external suggestions or incidents, often intimate subjective experiences, as the quickening impulse to his imagination.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
