"vigorous music" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to music that is spirited or intense. For example, "The crowd was energized by the vigorous music of the marching band."
The work's 10 choruses offer some of the score's most vigorous music, and Mr. Bass's choir sang them with a rich, warm tone and complete unity.
Finally, the scrim fell to the floor and the electronic sounds gave way to recordings of vigorous music for strings by the French Baroque composer Marin Marais, including his variations on "La Folia," a sturdy theme popular throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
The choral episodes, vibrantly sung by the excellent chorale (James Bagwell is the director), are the most impressive elements of the score, starting with the opening "Chorus of Israelites," vigorous music that swings broadly in a marching triple meter, as the voices sing proclamations in thick block harmonies, until a complex middle section when the choristers break into a studious fugato.
The talented musician/entrepreneur Dave Koz is shepherding the music here, and I know far too well (from Herb Alpert) the difficulty and expense it takes to keep such a vigorous music program going.
It's vigorous, untutored music.
The Met also has a vigorous new music director or will have one in 2020.
One recent morning, David Robertson, the vigorous new music director of the St. Louis Symphony, stood up in front of eighteen hundred schoolchildren in Powell Hall, the orchestra's home, to present a Young People's Concert.
By Alex Ross One recent morning, David Robertson, the vigorous new music director of the St . Louis Symphony stood up in front of eighteen hundred schoolchildren in Powell Hall, the orchestra's home, to present a Young People's Concert.
It was concentrated, utterly absorbing music, vigorous and methodical like a workday, but one transfigured by contemplation.
This was ordinary life set to haunting music: vigorous, low-church American folk hymns from the 19th-century collection "The Sacred Harp".
But Haimovitz is right at home in the gently rhapsodic Partita No. 2, as well as in "The Secret Agent," a vigorous arrangement of music that Glass wrote for the 1996 film of the same name.
