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
A god in such delineation is twice the size of the ordinary man, and so it is in descriptive music.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
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 Rowlands, Walter
It is descriptive music, tonal painting if you will; but the color is local or national.
From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.
This, though containing some fine descriptive music and several choruses of great beauty, is not at all equal to the earlier work, though at the time its success was quite as complete.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
