tone-painting

The contrasts were plentiful: Chopin's emotionalism against Bach's Olympian detachment; funereal brooding against serene optimism; poetic, improvisatory tone-painting against perfectly worked-out counterpoint.

PERFORMING ARTS 2011

In many apparently serious motets the tone-painting of individual words is so literal that one suspects a half-humorous intent, and occasionally one is sure of it: the concertato performance of motets is parodied in Laudent Deum cythara, in which five instrumental families are named, to music characteristic for each, in the space of a dozen bars the total length of the piece.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

To call him "the father of tone-painting, image-creating composers" seems to me, however, to somewhat overstate his case.

Playing Liszt Machlis, Joseph 1987

As a result, Liszt deserves to be allotted his rightful place more conclusively as the father of the tone-painting, image-creating composers and of those who cracked the tonal walls of diatonic music from Debussy right through to and including Stravinsky in The Firebird and Petrushka.

Playing Liszt Tureck, Rosalyn 1987

It is difficult to recall anything in objective tone-painting, for the piano or for the orchestra, conceived and executed quite in the manner of this remarkable piece of lyrical impressionism.

Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

It is difficult to recall anything in objective tone-painting, for the piano or for the orchestra, conceived and executed quite in the manner of this remarkable piece of lyrical impressionism.

Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

As a feat of sheer tone-painting one recalls few things, of a similar scope and purpose, that surpass it in fitness, concision, and felicity.

Edward MacDowell Lawrence Gilman 1908

As a feat of sheer tone-painting one recalls few things, of a similar scope and purpose, that surpass it in fitness, concision, and felicity.

Edward MacDowell Gilman, Lawrence, 1878-1939 1908

The overture, as fresh and picturesque a piece of tone-painting as anything he ever wrote, is familiar to all concert-goers, and the opening of the first act is no less original.

The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland 1892

His keen dramatic sense enabled him to arouse interest through contrasts, conspicuously characteristic passages, and independent orchestral preludes, interludes and bits of descriptive tone-painting.

For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Aubertine Woodward Moore 1885