Footnote 246: An enlightening and comprehensive account of each of these may be found in Niecks's Programme Music already referred to.
Of course, my Symphony is programme music, but it would be impossible to give the programme in words; it would appear ludicrous and only raise a smile.
I can say without exaggeration that, after hearing these two overtures and Meyerbeer's Struensee, Tchaikovsky was always an impassioned lover of programme music.
Laroche does not call me the enemy of programme music, but thinks I have no gift for this kind of work; therefore he describes me as an anti-programme composer.
The true founder of programme music, however, was Berlioz, every one of whose works not only bears a definite title, but appears with a detailed explanation.
If one cannot exactly call the splendid Overture to Agrippina, 1709, a Concert Overture of programme music, one cannot deny its dramatic power.
Now, as has already been said, some of the earliest examples of instrumental music were mainly descriptive in character, that is to say, consisting of imitations of things, thus marking the most elementary stage of programme music.
In reality, "programme music," in some form or other, has existed for many generations.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "programme music" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
