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Program Music: By: Basty Tabares

Program music is instrumental music that is associated with and meant to depict an extramusical narrative, story, or idea. Composers provide a program or explanation to elicit particular mental images or representations of characters and events. In the 19th century, composers relied on music's ability to suggest ideas, objects, and emotions. Examples of program music forms include program symphonies like Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which uses a recurring theme to represent a character, as well as concert overtures, symphonic poems, and incidental music.

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Program Music: By: Basty Tabares

Program music is instrumental music that is associated with and meant to depict an extramusical narrative, story, or idea. Composers provide a program or explanation to elicit particular mental images or representations of characters and events. In the 19th century, composers relied on music's ability to suggest ideas, objects, and emotions. Examples of program music forms include program symphonies like Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which uses a recurring theme to represent a character, as well as concert overtures, symphonic poems, and incidental music.

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Program Music

By: Basty Tabares


Program music
Commonly categorized as:
• A kind of art music
• An instrumental music
• Associated with an idea, poem, scene, or story
• An endeavor to depict musically an extramusical narrative
• Able to draw forth a certain experience in the audience other than sitting in
front of musicians
Program Music
• Composers of peogram music state the extramusical element or narrative
through a title or notes in explanation called a program.
• Can elicit particular mental images of movements or sounds in nature and
therefore represent the characters and events in a particular story as well as
the mental and physicsl manifestations of feelings.
• Nineteenth-century composers of program music rely on the capacity of
music to suggest or evoke jonmusicsl ifeas, objects, images, or events.
Forms of Program Music
• Program Symphony
-an orchestral composition that relays ideas or narrates a story.
-nineteenth-century composers employ themes such as: witchcraft, death,
mystery, and other emotions
Forms of Program Music
• Program Symphony
-some examples of the program symphony are Don Quixote, Romeo and
Juliet, and Symphonie Fantastique (Fantastic Symphony)
Forms of Program Music
• Symphonie Fantastique
-composed by Hector Berlioz
-composed of 5 movents:
-First movement – “Reveries, Passions”
-Second movement – “A ball”
-Third movement – “Scene in the Fields”
-Fourth movement – “March to the Scaffold”
-Fifth movement – “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”
Forms of Program Music
• Symphonie Fantastique
-Berloiz used a single melody in this composition which he called idée fixe
or fixed idea to represemt the character’s loved one.
Forms of Program Music
• Concert Overture
-an independent single-movement work, which is usually written in sonata
form.
-some examples lf concert overture are: Fingal’s Cave Overture by Felix
Mendelssohn, Academic Festival Overture by Johannes Brahms
Forms of Program Music
• Symphonic Poem
-also known as tone poem. And is also a single-movement composition.
-some of the well known tone poems are: Les préludes by Frank Liszt,
Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky, The Sorcerrer’s
Apprentice by Paul Dukas and many more.
Forms of Program Music
• Incidental Music
-performed before and during a play. Intended to add atmosphere to the
action.
-example of Incidental Music is the famous “Wedding March” composed
by Felix Mendelssohn

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