symphonic poem
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piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section
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- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- symphonic music
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- Category:Symphonic poems
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Encyclopedic overview
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, literally tone poem, appears to have been first used by the composer Carl Loewe in 1828. The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt first applied the term Symphonische Dichtung to his 13 works in this vein, which commenced in 1848.
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