programme music
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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programme music. Instr. mus. which tells a story, illustrates literary ideas, or evokes pictorial scenes. Though the term originated with Liszt, illustrative mus. has existed for as long as mus. itself. Beethoven's
Pastoral Symphony is a well-nigh perfect example of mus. which is both illustrative and satisfying purely as mus. In the 19th cent., composers such as Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and R. Strauss lent the full resources of the sym. orch. to this form of mus. art in works such as the
Symphonie fantastique,
Romeo and Juliet, and
Don Quixote. The precept, once widely propagated, that ‘absolute mus.’ was,
ipso facto, superior to ‘programme mus.’ is now, happily, outdated.
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