[Dixielandjazz] Music is ?

[David Richoux]

I can remember attending a "Young People's Concert" put on by the San 
Francisco Symphony - probably around 1963 - that had a "programme 
music" piece recreating the sounds of an iron foundry. All sorts of 
crashes, bangs and chugging sounds - it was quite exciting - but I was 
not able to ever find more info on that  piece until the internet came 
along: Mossolov's "The Iron Foundry" of 1923.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1511/is_12_21/ai_67185304

Dave Richoux

On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:26 AM, John Farrell wrote:

> Music which describes, evokes or otherwise alludes to a non-musical 
> source
> e.g. a poem, novel, play, picture, landscape, or an explicit emotional
> experience is referred to as "illustrative music" or "programme music".
> Joplin's Crush Collision March is a good example, written to describe 
> the
> 1896 occasion when a deliberate head-on collision between two 
> locomotives
> was staged, the engines blew up killing three spectators and injuring 
> many
> others.