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
Warren uses an assured hand in treating the family melodrama with the tenderness of a tone poem.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 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
Frank Guerney Cauffman's tone poem "Salammbô" given by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
From Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Lahee, Henry Charles
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