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program music

PROE-gram MYOO-zik

[English]

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.


Example


Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46, No. 1, "Ase's Death"


Modest Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, "Bydlo"


Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nocturne


Camille Saint-Saëns: Le carnaval des animaux, "Fossiles"



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Last Updated: 2016-06-06 20:40:18