programme music
Britishnoun
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Some consideration of this subject may enable us to understand the much discussed question of programme music.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
There has never been, in this country at least, so thorough an attempt to collate the facts of programme music....
From Education and the Higher Life by Spalding, J. L.
In reality, "programme music," in some form or other, has existed for many generations.
From Masters of French Music by Hervey, Arthur
Up to the time of Beethoven, music for the pianoforte consisted mainly of programme music of the purely descriptive order, that is to say, it was generally imitative of natural or artificial externals.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
Before taking up the works themselves, let us consider the form of which it is the soul, the principle of programme music.
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
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