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129 Albert Roussel. 130 Anton Rubinstein. 131 Joseph Ryelandt. ... Cycle of Symphonic Poems from Czech History (1915–17) Heikki Suolahti. Hades, Op. 10 (1932)
While many symphonic poems may compare in size and scale to symphonic movements (or even reach the length of an entire symphony), they are unlike traditional classical symphonic movements, in that their music is intended to inspire listeners to imagine or consider scenes, images, specific ideas or moods, and not (necessarily) to focus on following traditional patterns of musical form such as ...
At age 17, he wrote Mon Âme, a long poem published three years later in Le Gaulois. By 1896, he had commenced editing his long poem La Doublure when he suffered a mental crisis. After the poem was published on 10 June 1897 and was completely unsuccessful, Roussel began to see the psychiatrist Pierre Janet. In subsequent years, his inherited ...
Symphonic poem – Orchestral composition based on an extra-musical narrative, often a literary or pictorial idea. Symphony – Large-scale composition, typically for an orchestra and often in four movements. Choral symphony – Symphony that incorporates a choir and vocal soloists along with the orchestra.
Shock Diamonds (tone poem) Siegfried Idyll; Silent Spring (composition) Son et lumière (composition) A Song of Islands; The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Dukas) Stenka Razin (Glazunov) A Summer's Tale (Suk) Symphonic Sketches
Designated for motivated students with a command of standard English, an interest in exploring and analyzing challenging classical and contemporary literature, and a desire to analyze and interpret dominant literary genres and themes, it is often offered to high school seniors and the other AP English course, AP English Language and Composition, to juniors.
The term is usually reserved for purely instrumental works (pieces without singers and lyrics), and not used, for example for opera or lieder. Single-movement orchestral pieces of program music are often called symphonic poems. Absolute music, in contrast, is intended to be appreciated without any particular reference to the outside world.
Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ ʃaʁl pɔl maʁi ʁusɛl]; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman , turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period .