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

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)

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

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel

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