Beethoven publicly declared the piece's "extramusical" purpose: an expression of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

In former times, a composer could make a point instrumentally by drawing on themes with extramusical associations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tanglewood Festival: Can Music Talk Politics? - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

The extramusical amusements were fun, but prevented the gig from building up the momentum a great rock show needs to take flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popsters OK Go are ready, willing but not quite able to rock at 9:30 club] Reference

The extramusical amusements were fun, but ultimately prevented the gig from building up the momentum a great rock show needs to take flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [In concert: OK Go at 9:30 club] Reference

But her big extramusical moment came in 1992, when Hillary Clinton went on "" 60 Minutes '' and said she wasn't "" sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Lady Of Nashville] Reference

Miller also virtually invented musical special effects: He made pop records more like a film soundtrack, and utilized extramusical noises, such as dog barks and hoof beats, he said, "to paint a picture in the listener's mind.".    From Wordnik.com.  [They Sang Along With Mitch] Reference

Yet even without these extramusical circumstances, it seems reasonable that Young's sound would have grown darker and deeper as he got older (as did Sinatra's), and to many of us Young in his 40s is even more melancholy and moving than his earlier self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forever Young—A Centennial Tribute] Reference

What was at issue in my review is whether, in the late eighteenth century, there existed musical elements that are conventional signs of extramusical meaning, whether and to what extent there are specific motifs with specific significances that can be arbitrarily determined like the elements of a code.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Radical, Conventional Mozart': An Exchange] Reference

Many conductors shrink from such extramusical activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phillies Zone] Reference

The Shrines 'approach isn't as extramusical as that of Vice label mates the Black Lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

I'll have to pass … extramusical: Now that is awesome, my mom would have loved that 30 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [OhGizmo!] Reference

A composer can only effectively make a political statement through language which is ultimately extramusical.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewMusicBox] Reference

There's almost nothing extramusical about this tenor saxophonist: this dark, solid tone, sound and phrasing, and the freshness of the solo lines in fast songs or ballads, are their own rewards.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Strauss for example, and Marita Viitasalo's in the works of Schubert, Schumann and Wolf are indispensable for their contextual understanding and natural fluidity in Hindemith's musical and extramusical demands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

Sixth Symphony, the "Pastoral," that stands most apart from his others, and indeed from nearly all of Beethoven's instrumental and keyboard music, in its intentional, publicly declared, and often quite audible extramusical content.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The extramusical developments emerged at.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Minnesota Orchestra makes the BBC] Reference