program music
noun
: music intended to suggest a sequence of images or incidents
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Arutyunyan’s team whizzed by as coaches scrutinized their arm placements, knelt to watch skate movement and replayed the opening notes of one skater’s program music. 
Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022 The Nash has done its best to program music during the pandemic. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2021 The Miami location, layered in murals by local artists, has a partnership with Sweat Records, the Little Haiti vinyl mecca that will help program music and provide records in the brewery’s onsite shop. Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 12 May 2021 The 21-year-old's concerts mix programmed music with his skilled keyboard performance, and watching him churn out complicated and speedy refrains and chords onstage is like watching Louis Cole's drumming, only on keyboards instead. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2020 Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra and the Narashino High School brass band appeared together on the popular music program Music Station on Nov. 8 and performed the track live on TV for the first time. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2019 Which just goes to show that the computer doesn't always know how to program music. Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018 Completed in the early 1700s, the piece is a celebrated example of program music, or instrumentals involving a narrative element. Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2018 Although the Philharmonic has programmed music by Ms. Thorvaldsdottir, 40, in the past, this is her first commission for the orchestra, the result of winning its Kravis Emerging Composer award in 2015. Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018 See More
Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2022 The Nash has done its best to program music during the pandemic. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2021 The Miami location, layered in murals by local artists, has a partnership with Sweat Records, the Little Haiti vinyl mecca that will help program music and provide records in the brewery’s onsite shop. Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 12 May 2021 The 21-year-old's concerts mix programmed music with his skilled keyboard performance, and watching him churn out complicated and speedy refrains and chords onstage is like watching Louis Cole's drumming, only on keyboards instead. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2020 Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra and the Narashino High School brass band appeared together on the popular music program Music Station on Nov. 8 and performed the track live on TV for the first time. Billboard Japan, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2019 Which just goes to show that the computer doesn't always know how to program music. Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 19 June 2018 Completed in the early 1700s, the piece is a celebrated example of program music, or instrumentals involving a narrative element. Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, 13 June 2018 Although the Philharmonic has programmed music by Ms. Thorvaldsdottir, 40, in the past, this is her first commission for the orchestra, the result of winning its Kravis Emerging Composer award in 2015. Joshua Barone, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
1857, in the meaning defined above