A piece of orchestral music, typically in one movement, on a descriptive or rhapsodic theme.
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Example sentencesExamples
The overall form of this quartet could easily be described as a chamber tone poem.
Contemporary orchestral works are often commissioned as opening pieces for concerts, so it seems to be popular to use a variation of the Lisztian tone poem as the basic form of the piece.
Indeed, sketches survive of a comparatively opulent piano concerto, and of a tone poem 'Der schone Spiegel' from as late as 1928.
Like a Strauss tone poem, the scoring is opulent, wide-ranging, but unmistakably Czech in its harmonic language.
It was during this period that he wrote his most important, purely orchestral work, the tone poem 'Hero and Leander' for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Definition of tone poem in US English:
tone poem
nounˈtoʊn ˌpoʊəmˈtōn ˌpōəm
A piece of orchestral music, typically in one movement, on a descriptive or rhapsodic theme.
交响诗，音诗
Example sentencesExamples
Like a Strauss tone poem, the scoring is opulent, wide-ranging, but unmistakably Czech in its harmonic language.
It was during this period that he wrote his most important, purely orchestral work, the tone poem 'Hero and Leander' for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
Indeed, sketches survive of a comparatively opulent piano concerto, and of a tone poem 'Der schone Spiegel' from as late as 1928.
Contemporary orchestral works are often commissioned as opening pieces for concerts, so it seems to be popular to use a variation of the Lisztian tone poem as the basic form of the piece.
The overall form of this quartet could easily be described as a chamber tone poem.