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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.
Compiled in an effort to present modern poetry in a way that would appeal to the young, Watermelon Pickle was long a standard in high school curricula, [2] and has been described as a classic. [ 3 ] The anthology consists of 114 poems, including ones by Ezra Pound , Edna St. Vincent Millay and e. e. cummings , but also ones by lesser-known poets.
The origin of the tone poem remains obscure but The Wood Nymph may well have gradually evolved out of music for a verismo opera that Sibelius had planned but never realized. The libretto , as related in a letter from Sibelius dated 28 July 1894, tells the story of a young, engaged student who, while travelling abroad, meets and is attracted by ...
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.
The poem was published in the October 1796 Monthly Magazine, [22] under the title Reflections on Entering into Active Life. A poem Which Affects Not to be Poetry. [23] Reflections was included in Coleridge's 28 October 1797 collection of poems and the anthologies that followed. [22] The themes of Reflections are similar to those of The Eolian Harp.
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
The Fleetwood Mac singer-songwriter, 75, penned the opening prologue poem for Taylor Swift’s latest studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, which was released on Friday, April 19.
The Graveyard School's melancholy was not new to English poetry, but rather a continuation of that of previous centuries; there is even an elegiac quality to the poems almost reminiscent of Anglo-Saxon literature. [4] The characteristics and style of Graveyard poetry is not unique to them, and the same themes and tone are found in ballads and odes.