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

One writer speaks of it as a "piece in which a series of double shakes, and the satanic laugh with which it concludes, are so dear to lovers of descriptive music."

From Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians by Rowlands, Walter

This, though containing some fine descriptive music and several choruses of great beauty, is not at all equal to the earlier work, though at the time its success was quite as complete.

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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

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)