tone poem

Thân thiện

The orchestra performs a tone poem inspired by a forest legend.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A symphonic poem: A "tone poem" is a piece of orchestral music, typically in one continuous movement, that illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, story, novel, painting, landscape, or other non-musical source. It is a programmatic work intended to tell a story or describe a scene through music.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Richard Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra" is a famous tone poem inspired by Nietzsche's philosophical novel.
  • The composer dedicated his latest tone poem to the legends of the ancient forest.
  • In the concert, the orchestra performed a dramatic tone poem based on a Scottish ballad.

Advanced Usage

• As a genre label: The term is often used to categorize a significant portion of 19th and early 20th-century programmatic orchestral music.
  • The Romantic era saw the tone poem become a major form for expressing literary and pictorial ideas through music.

Variants and Related Words

• Symphonic poem: This is a direct synonym for "tone poem." The terms are used interchangeably.
  • Franz Liszt is considered a pioneer of the symphonic poem.

Synonyms

• Symphonic poem: An orchestral composition that tells a story or describes a scene.
• Program music: A broader category of instrumental music intended to convey an extra-musical narrative, of which the tone poem is a prime example.

Related Idioms/Phrases

(This term is a specific musical genre and does not commonly feature in idiomatic phrases outside of musical discussion.)

Học thuật

Noun

1. an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales

Từ đồng nghĩa

• symphonic poem