programme music

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programme music

n
(Music, other) music that is intended to depict or evoke a scene or idea. Compare absolute music
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Noun1.programme music - musical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events
program music
musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
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With movement titles such as Sensations Of Travel and Dragonfly, this could have been programme music. But it was a four-dimensional picture of space and time on the journey.
Trust mixes period styles with aplomb
With movement titles such as Sensations Of Travel and Dragonfly, this could have been programme music. But it was a fourdimensional picture of space and time on the journey.
Trust mixes period styles with aplomb
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