Editing List of program music (section)

=== [[Richard Strauss]] ===

A major developer of the [[tone poem]] as a musical form, Strauss displayed outstanding skill at musical description. He claimed that he was capable of "describing a knife and fork<!-- isn't the quote "a teaspoon"? -->" in music, and said that a sensitive listener to ''Don Juan'' could discern the hair color of Don Juan's amorous partners.

* ''[[Don Juan (Strauss)|Don Juan]]'', Op. 20 (1889)
* [[Macbeth (Strauss)|''Macbeth'']], Op. 23
* ''[[Tod und Verklärung]]'' ("Death and Transfiguration") Op. 24 (1889)
* ''[[Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche]]'' ("Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks"), Op. 28
* ''[[Also sprach Zarathustra (Strauss)|Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'' ("[[Thus Spoke Zarathustra]]"), Op. 30 (1896)
* ''[[Don Quixote (Strauss)|Don Quixote]]'', Op. 35 (1897)
* ''[[Ein Heldenleben]]'' ("A hero's life"), Op. 40
* ''[[Symphonia Domestica]]'' ("Domestic Symphony"), Op. 53 (1903).  A musical description of the composer's personal daily life, including an unflattering musical picture of Frau Strauss
* ''[[Eine Alpensinfonie]]'' ("An Alpine Symphony"), Op. 64 (1915). A work with twenty-two named narrative sections describing the ascent of an alpine mountain. A section of the work depicts a thunderstorm, with perhaps the most realistic thunder-and-lightning in orchestral music.
* Duett-Concertino (1947), depicting a princess and a bear.