program music

1. 1.

   musical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events

   Synonymsprogramme music

   Broadermusical composition

Questions about program music

What does program music mean?

program music means "musical compositions intended to evoke images or remind the listener of events".

What is another word for program music?

Close synonyms include programme music. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is program music a common word?

program music is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.