Program music
(PROE-gram MYOO-zik)
Compositions with extra-musical content that directs the attention of the listener to a literary or pictoral association. Program music was especially popular in the 19th century.
SUGGESTED LISTENING EXAMPLES:
- Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 2, Track 10
- Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46, No. 1, "Ase's Death"
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 1, Track 67
- Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, "Bydlo"
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 2, Track 12
- Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux, "Fossiles"
- W. W. Norton - 4-CD Musical Example Bank --
Disc 2, Track 15
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