Would the music from a ballet be considered to be programme music?

Copland turned the music from his Ballet 'Rodeo' into a set of orchestral suites are these suites programmatic music as they are written to depict the story from the ballet?

Would the music from a ballet be considered to be programme music?playhouse

yes, music that is written for ballets, operas and even films is considered programmatic - including when they are adapted into concert pieces. See Wikipedia article on this, which has a nice Copland quote about programme music.

EDIT: In reply to subsequent answer: Copland's Rodeo Suite is indeed programmatic. Consisting of the Buckaroo Holiday, the Corral Nocturne, the Honkey-Tonk Interlude,Saturday Night Waltz and Hoedown, Copland uses American folk tunes leaving them far more intact than in most other works, echoing the plot of the ballet (regardless of its adaption to the orchestra, this remains a narrative). Music that is composed to accompany a ballet is programmatic as it is used, by and large, as the aural narrative device (in contrast to the observational device provided by the dance). That is not to say that programmatic music does not or cannot stand alone, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a prime example of this, but that doesn't exclude ballet and other incidental music from this category either.

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Would the music from a ballet be considered to be programme music?

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