programme music

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsprogram music

   Broadermusical composition

Questions about programme music

What does programme music mean?

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

What is another word for programme music?

Close synonyms include program 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 programme music a common word?

programme 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.