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absolute music

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absolute music, term used for music dependent on its structure alone for comprehension. It is the antithesis of program music program music Instrumental music of the 19th and 20th cent. that endeavors to arouse mental pictures or ideas in the thoughts of the listener—to tell a story, depict a scene, or impel a mood.
..... Click the link for more information. . It is not associated with extramusical ideas or with a pictorial or narrative scheme of emotions, nor does it attempt to reproduce sounds in nature. Hence it is always instrumental, although not all instrumental music is absolute. Bach's Art of Fugue is an example of absolute music.
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Well out of the frame at Haydock and Beverley on his previous two starts, Tim Easterby's charge kept on well in the closing stages to take third place behind Absolute Music FLORENTIA Displayed a little more promise returned to seven furlongs at Lingfield and the filly should be capable of picking up a small race on the all-weather.
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