program music

Examples

• All

• Her lesson on program music included many engaging recorded examples, and she was thrilled that the students could guess the animal, story, or event behind many of the pieces they heard.

  Academic text (2009)

• Karen, a veteran elementary general music teacher, recently looked at her school district curriculum guide and thought about an engaging way to teach the concept of program music—the idea that music can represent other things—to her third graders.

  Academic text (2009)

• This composition is considered one of the best of the "train" pieces and can be viewed as program music.

  Academic text (1999)

• When the day came to introduce program music, she mentioned Peter and the Wolf and asked the students what they remembered about it.

  Academic text (2009)

• Composers of program music have often asked us to imagine visual images.

  Academic text (1997)

• She remembered examples of program music that they had already experienced and that she could relate to the current topic.

  Academic text (2009)

• Romantic-era program music captured their imaginations, leading to more class involvement and discussion.

  Academic text (1996)

• She jotted down Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev as a work to mention to the students to remind them that they had already encountered an example of program music.

  Academic text (2009)

• While recognizing the "absolute" value of music, we know—and students enjoy discovering—the many manifestations of program music in the literature.

  Academic text (1990)

• The teacher played several pieces of program music to help the students visualize the stories behind the compositions.

How Programmatic

tone poem

• Specialized

1 8.0

program music

• Specialized

6.8

mood music

5 4.1

absolute music

• Specialized

7.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology