descriptive music
Example Sentences
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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 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.
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.
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)
