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tone poem
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tone poem
n.
See symphonic poem.
tone poem
n
(Music / Classical Music) another term for symphonic poem
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Noun1.tone poem - an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales
symphonic poem
musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
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tone poem
n → Tongedicht nt
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They’re delicate tone poems that, however, center most often on the cruel, the disgusting or the sad.
Gorgeous Grotesques by Will Heinrich / The New York Observer
Vernon Handley continues his campaign for Arnold Bax's orchestral music with his second disc of tone poems.
Bax: Three Northern Ballads; Nympholept; Red Autumn; etc, BBCPO/ ... by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Following his writing a succession of popular, big-scale tone poems like Don Juan, Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration), Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), and Also sprach Zarathustra, Richard Strauss ended his love affair with the genre in 1915 with An Alpine Symphony.
Strauss: An Alpine Symphony by Puccio, John / Sensible Sound
 
 
 
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