program music
noun
music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
Compare
absolute music.
Origin of program music
First recorded in 1880–85
Words nearby program music
progradation,
prograde,
program,
program director,
program generator,
program music,
program picture,
program statement,
program trading,
program, to,
programmable
Example sentences from the Web for program music
It stands one of the masterpieces of program-music, in equal balance of pure beauty with the graphic plan.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies |Philip H. GoeppYet it must be yielded that Liszt's program-music was of the higher kind that dwells in symbols rather than in concrete details.
Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies |Philip H. Goepp