program music
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A handful of skaters who train with Arutyunyan’s team whizzed by as coaches scrutinized their arm placements, knelt to watch skate movement and replayed the opening notes of one skater’s program music.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022
Operated through the hospital’s Child Life program, music therapy helps children and their families cope with stresses related to a child’s illness and the adjustment of a hospital stay.
From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2016
You might think that writing program music automatically provides a composer with a structure for a long piece.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2011
But a piece of program music must have a convincing musical structure of its own, as Julia Wolfe’s restless “Cruel Sister” does.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2011
This implies not that program music is without a definite structure, only that the form is different—modified by the needs of the subject.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
