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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See symphonic poem.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A piece of symphonic music which, like a poem, has a narrative or descriptive theme

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales

Etymologies

  1. Calque of German Tondichtung (Ton "tone", Dichtung "poem") (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “From a Log Cabin is an inspired tone poem suggesting the atmosphere of a quiet evening in the woods, with the slow setting of the sun in the Golden West; a scene by which Nature often creates the sense of the mysterious more impressively and truly than any man-made attempts can equal.”

    Edward MacDowell

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  1. symphonic poem

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  1. musical composition
  1. composition
  1. piece
  1. piece of music
  1. opus

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. Debussy
  1. symphonic poem
  1. elegy

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