descriptive music

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.

He gave her the name in Yiddish—Flatterkatchki—a descriptive music in syllables, full of the flutter and quack of the farm-yard.

Flash.—Stirring subject for operatic and descriptive music—A Gentleman's Toilet in Difficulties.

The orchestral descriptive music of this play within a play is beautiful and interesting.

I knew enough of the legend to be able to follow, and moreover I had always heard that Wagner's descriptive music was so wonderful that one understood everything without any text, etc.