Program Symphony of Youssif Khasho (Analytic study)

Abstract

Program music was popular in 20th century’s composers, they wrote their music works as a description to the dramatic ideas, this was known as program music, The Jordanian composer Khasho has been one of these composers who had a very high level in music composition and not less than the composers in the western world and the Arab nationalism composers. He wrote about 14 program symphonies with special titles and narrative stories, also he describes drama with different types of expressions. Khasho didn’t get his arts and academic rights as a composer, because of Scarcity of research which discusses his works that considered Legacy humanly and culturally valuable in arts technique, no less than universal works in its value.