Shadle also points out that the European debate regarding descriptive or narrative symphonies (
program music) also influenced the compositional output of American composers.
Kayne credits, in part, the bold modern style of their routine--their short
program music is Hozier's "Take Me to Church"--for their success at nationals.
Program Music and Movement for toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers.
It discusses his personality, including his creativity, asthma, love of nature, religiosity, and commitment to radical modernism and German music; his theoretical ideas (and the ideas of the Second Viennese School) about the psychology of creation, art theory, aesthetics, philosophy and weltanschauung,
program music, numerology, magical music, symmetry and palindromes, tonality, and other concepts; and how the compositional techniques of his works reflect his life, including those in Wozzeck, George Lieder, the OrchesterstEcke op.
Liszt's embrace of the dramatic symphony led to
program music and symphonic poems that later became the accepted style.
One of the reasons Beethoven's work remains so popular, Botstein says, is that the German composer "defied the later reductive separation of
program music"--work intended to produce a set of feelings or complement a story--"from absolute music." Some of Beethoven's pieces do contain hints of narrative, ideas, and emotions, even while they lack text.
* One way to expand the student's interpretive expression is by having her write a story about the piece, starting with a title (if it's not
program music), then sentences for each phrase, sometimes even words for each note or chord.