Program musicDo you ever close your eyes and listen to music? If so, there's a good chance that the music makes you experience a range of emotions and visual images based on what you're listening to. Even when there are no words, you can hear the image of the music. For example, listening to Primavera, from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, you can hear the flow of water and the chirping of birds. This is what composers call program music. It is instrumental music that can lead you to visualize non-musical events. There are no lyrics but the image in your mind is as clear as if someone was verbally describing the scene to you. I believe that program music can represent scenes with the sole use of instruments. There are four main types of program music, including the concert overture, incidental music for a play, program symphony, and tone poem. The concert overture is a concert piece for orchestra composed of a single movement. It is not a prelude to a larger symphonic work. Examples of concert overtures include Johannes Brahms' Tragic Overture and Overture in G minor...