Program |

from the Greek programma – announcement, order; French and English. programme, German Programm, ital. programma

1) The composition of any concert – muses performed in a certain order. works.

2) A printed, and in the past also a handwritten leaflet with a sequential listing of the muses performed in any concert. prod. and their performers, as well as listing theater performers. performance and all employees of the theater who took part in its preparation (director, conductor, choirmaster, artist, etc.). Such P. are intended for visitors to concerts and the theater. productions; often they are more detailed, including explanations for the compositions they perform. In decomp. archives preserved a large number of printed and handwritten letters, incl. related to the distant past; such P. constitute an important documentary source for the study of the history of music.

3) The verbal component of the software music. product that provides the subject and conceptual concretization of its images, see Program music.