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

It is perpetually present, so that at last one comes to think, as I have been compelled to think this long time, that Purcell wrote nothing but descriptive music all his life.

From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.

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)

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

His specialty as a composer was in the domain of descriptive music, his genius was for the picturesque.

From Great Violinists And Pianists by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)