The phrase "assertive music" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe music that conveys confidence, strength, or a commanding presence.
Example: "The film's soundtrack featured assertive music that heightened the tension during the climactic scenes."
Alternatives: "confident music" or "powerful music".
He played several bars of bright, assertive sounding music.
(Jon Pareles) ANI DIFRANCO, KIMYA DAWSON (Wednesday) An indie-folk pairing never seemed more predestined: Ani DiFranco, from Buffalo, has been playing politically assertive folk music since 1990, bellowing caustic, clever screeds over slammed acoustic guitar.
The North Mississippi All-Stars, a blues power trio with a punky experimental edge, cultivated the right combination of freewheeling curiosity and soul to keep the music assertive but buoyant.
The assertive majesty of the music seems to invite awkwardness.
Turning Ferrando's statements into questions is problematic for me, since Mozart's music seems assertive, not incredulous.
Sometimes the music turns assertive and declamatory, with melodic ideas unfolding in thick, note-crammed, textured chords, harmonically ambiguous yet grounded.
The conductor Tito Muñoz, maintaining a precise beat, meets the challenge ably while giving full value to the music's assertive vitality.
The article also misattributed a comment in the film, that graffiti writing "has equally assertive counterparts in rap music and break dancing".
Noting that graffiti writing "has equally assertive counterparts in rap music and break dancing," Mr. Chalfant, a sculptor who became entranced by graffiti while standing on subway platforms in the late 1970's, announced the birth of "hip-hop culture" -- positioning paint-sniffing vandals and block party D.J.'s on the same safe, respectable continuum as PBS and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
(Chinen) Eric Reed (Friday through Sunday) The pianist Eric Reed brings an assertive intellect to his own music, and as an interpreter he seems to consider the weight of every gesture.
