Possible Clues:

• Note new verses in piece of narrative music
• 'La Mer', say, only in unusual tempo
• Theme music old writer's written up in new tome
• Musical piece like Smetana's 'Vltava'
• Orchestral piece is unified within varied tempo
• Piece of music I put in frantic tempo
• Soapy piece of orchestral music
• Piece of music with unusual tempo entertaining one
• Story-telling symphonic work
• Story-telling orchestral piece