Instrumental music not intended to represent or illustrate something else.
纯音乐。比较 PROGRAMME MUSIC
Compare with programme music
Example sentencesExamples
Some musicologists might argue that the Inventions fall into a category of absolute music.
G.I. Gurdjieff conducted experiments in search of absolute music, sounds that would have a specific, predictable effect on the listener.
As Chua advances into the nineteenth century, the paradoxes and ambiguities concerning the nature of absolute music pile up, to considerable dramatic effect.
Indeed, throughout her life Beach never wavered from her deep belief in absolute music as a force for moral redemption - however anachronistic this would come to appear in the more disturbed decades after the First World War.
Very little of Mauricio Kagel's work is absolute music; there is almost invariably a programme of some kind lurking behind every note of it.
Definition of absolute music in US English:
absolute music
nounˈˌæbsəˈˌl(j)ut ˈmjuzɪk
Instrumental music composed purely as music, and not intended to represent or illustrate something else.
纯音乐。比较 PROGRAMME MUSIC
Compare with program music
Example sentencesExamples
Some musicologists might argue that the Inventions fall into a category of absolute music.
Very little of Mauricio Kagel's work is absolute music; there is almost invariably a programme of some kind lurking behind every note of it.
G.I. Gurdjieff conducted experiments in search of absolute music, sounds that would have a specific, predictable effect on the listener.
Indeed, throughout her life Beach never wavered from her deep belief in absolute music as a force for moral redemption - however anachronistic this would come to appear in the more disturbed decades after the First World War.
As Chua advances into the nineteenth century, the paradoxes and ambiguities concerning the nature of absolute music pile up, to considerable dramatic effect.