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 as well though, in dealing with this subject, to draw a distinction between purely imitative and descriptive music.
From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur
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 should be clearly understood that word-painting is not descriptive music.
From Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians by Runciman, John F.
