MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Faust Symphony, Symphonie Fantastique, Modest Mussorgsky
20 Feb 2018
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Romantic program music: instrumental music associated with a story, poem, concept, scene, or any extra-musical phenomenon, usually with a descriptive title revealing the source of inspiration. Such music is intended to stand alone in performance, as does a symphony or concerto, not to accompany dance, staged plays or other media. (music that accompanies a play is called incidental music". ) Such music is often more or less descriptive of characters, concepts or ideas from the source of inspiration. The programmatic piece might tell" (in music) certain parts of a narrative, or simply aurally illustrate characters or scenes from a drama, or a landscape, or a painting, a poem, etc. Program music is not a genre, because the concept does not specify style traits (ensemble, form, number of movements, etc. ) as a proper genre designation should. Rather it is a broad category encompassing nearly all instrumental chamber and orchestral genres.
