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A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source. The German term Tondichtung (tone poem) appears to have been first used by the composer Carl Loewe in 1828.
In the fixed-tone pattern type of verse, poems were written according to preexisting models known as "tunes". This was the case with the ci and the qu: an individual poem was written so that its tone pattern (and line lengths) were the same as one of the model types, the poetic variation was in the change in the particular wording of the lyrics.
The tone poems of Richard Strauss are noted as the high point of program music in the latter part of the 19th century, extending its boundaries and taking the concept of realism in music to an unprecedented level. In these works, he widened the expressive range of music while depicting subjects many times thought unsuitable for musical depiction.
Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.
Tone Poems may refer to: Symphonic poem, a form of orchestral composition; 3 Tondikter (3 Tone Poems), by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger; Tone poems (Strauss), group of works by Richard Strauss; Three Tone Poems, by Charles Tomlinson Griffes; Tone Poems, by Michael Glenn Williams; Tone Poems, by Dave Grisman and Tony Rice
Three Small Tone-poems, VI/7 (1890) Summer Evening; Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride) Spring Morning; Paa Vidderne (On the Mountains), VI/10 (1890–92) Over the Hills and Far Away, VI/11 (1895–97); fantasy overture for orchestra; Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899-1900); nocturne for orchestra; Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, VI/19 ...
Each composition was inspired by the poetry of Norman Sickel. A chapter discussing the album, "The Colors of Ava: Tone Poems of Color and the Painful Measure of Sinatra's Passions," appears in A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Greenwood Press, 2002) by Gilbert L. Gigliotti.
Fountains of Rome (Italian: Fontane di Roma), P 106, is a tone poem in four movements completed in 1916 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi.It is the first of his three tone poems about Rome, preceding Pines of Rome (1924) and Roman Festivals (1928).