Each rally was given a programmatic title, which related to recent national events:
Bruckner's Fourth was the only symphony to which he gave a programmatic title and the only one that was really successful in his lifetime.
Chopin never indulged in explicit "scene-painting" in his music, or used programmatic titles.
The programmatic title indicates that this effect was probably intended by Schumann.
He also used programmatic titles for works, such as his famous "The Four Seasons" violin concerti.
It has the programmatic title "Chasse-Neige", (literally "snow storm") and is the 12th and last of the Transcendental Études.
They also provided a key to "United States," which, in seven short movements with programmatic titles, comes off not unlike a song cycle itself.
The earlier works are shorn of their programmatic titles and sung texts, and reworked into, simply, symphonies, predominantly grave and serious.
Mr. Robbins has taken the programmatic titles of some of the piano pieces as a departure point.
Only his voice works have programmatic titles and his late works often adhere to classical forms.