Program MusicDo you ever close your eyes and listen to music? If so, chances are the music will make you feel a range of emotions and make you imagine scenes based on what you hear. Even when there are no words, you can feel the image of the music. For example, when listening to Spring, from Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons, we hear water flowing and birds singing. This is what composers call program music. It is instrumental music that can lead you to visualize non-musical events. There are no words but the image in your mind is as clear as if someone were describing the scene to you verbally. I believe that program music can depict scenes with simply the use of instruments. There are four main types of program music, namely the concert overture, the incidental music of a play, the program symphony and the tone poem. The concert overture is a one-movement concert piece for orchestra. It is not the prelude to a larger symphonic work. Examples of concert overtures include Tragic Overture by Johannes Brahms and Overture in G-min...