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

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

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

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.

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.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

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)