tone poem
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tone poem
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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The score is a tone poem for cascading piano, string quartet and sighing clarinet lines.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
The program was to have been Brahms’ Violin Concerto and Schoenberg’s tonally kaleidoscopic, over-the-top early tone poem “Pelleas und Melisande.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2024
Heyward opened his program with Montgomery’s “Records of a Vanishing City,” a tone poem that swirled with the music — most conspicuously, Miles Davis — that she heard growing up on the Lower East Side.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
“The Inspection” filters the brutal claustrophobia of Stanley Kubrick’s boot camp horror show through the piercing subjectivity of Barry Jenkins’ coming-of-age tone poem.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
His playing of Liszt's second rhapsody produces an electric shock; and once heard from him La Campanella remains in the memory an ineffaceable tone poem.
From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James
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