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
All these instances corroborate the statement that, in general, composers were influenced by external phenomena and that their program music was of an imitative and often frankly literal kind.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
