Program Music- it is an instrumental type of music that is intended to invoke or to convey the emotions that an event has to the audience. It sets a mood or a type of scenery which makes the audience feel. It is one of the main factors that gives more life or emotion to a movie or a play. So in other terms it descriptively narrates the emotions or the type of mood that a certain story like program would contain.
Program Music was very popular in the west during the Romantic era (1900's). One of the most well known examples of program music is Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, for it relates to a series of morbid fantasies concerning the unrequited love of a sensitive poet involving murder, execution, and the torments of Hell. The genre culminates in the symphonic works of Richard Strauss that include narrations of the adventures of Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel, the composer's domestic life, and an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy of the Übermensch.
What you are about to witness is how program music can be used in today's generation.(Note: Sorry if the quality may not be as high as it is expected to be)
This is a video of me and my cousin dancing. Now why did I use this program music for our dance? Because it exactly sets a happy yet calm and elegant theme of what emotion we would like to express in our dance. A dance may not be like a play or a movie that gives out a story, but as you can see or you have felt a dance displays varies of emotion in accordance to the music. If the music is sad then the mood of the dance is sad, If the music used is happy then the dance displays happiness. So a dance can really be flexible when it comes to the type or mood of music used.
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Music used: (Hector Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique) https://youtu.be/5HgqPpjIH5c
Some info gathered for this blog:
Wikipedia- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_music
