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Fantasia is incredible. I also still think it's an underutilized art form to have the music drive the picture rather than the other way around (three-minute music videos aside). For instance, I've always thought that Mahler's 3rd symphony could make an epic fantasy film - actors, battles, special effects, and no spoken dialogue.

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Interstella 5555, an hour-long anime movie made to accompany Daft Punk's excellent album, 'Discovery', fits the bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hVFTUFSdIs

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Kubrick does something like this, in parts of his films. Long scenes in Barry Lyndon and 2001 strike me as driven by, or interpretations of, the music. Of course there is a kind of "plot" going on, but these films can be seen as stealth abstract art.

Also, in Tarantino the music is often one of the major characters.

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There are some great contemporary directors in the music video space that are doing amazing narrative work with the format. I'd definitely check out these pieces by Tom Haines (https://vimeo.com/72176166) and Abteen Bagheri (https://vimeo.com/129684032).

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Isn't that basically an opera (or even musical theater)?

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I sat here for a few minutes thinking I could come up with a bunch of examples and I can't. Ballet? I thought there was a Rite of Spring thing too.

The use of music in war is close. A drummer boy beating his drum, driving the shape and movement of a marching army.

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not necessarily classical, but Koyaanisqatsi is similar to what you are describing.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Tarkus"

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