How to Use tone poem in a Sentence

tone poem

noun

• The tone poem is one of those forms that can be fudged and smudged a bit.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2022
• Sibelius’ tone poem evokes a legend from the Finnish national epic The Kalevala.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2023
• Instead, he’s written a script that is more akin to an orchestral tone poem.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 3 Mar. 2018
• Based on a ballad by Goethe, the tone poem tells the story of a budding magician who bewitches a broom to do his chores.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 7 Dec. 2019
• German composer Richard Strauss wrote this tone poem in 1896.
  — Doreen Christensen, sun-sentinel.com, 11 June 2019
• But what could have been written off as juvenilia took on new life as a tone poem and gave us one of the greatest English horn solos in the repertoire.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
• Those questions led me to choose the impressionistic tone poem of a documentary Faya Dayi as my No. 1.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021
• The latter was the first in a string of movies in which Murray's wry sadness has been a perfect fit for Anderson's precise, idiosyncratic comic tone poems.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 14 Apr. 2018
• Rather, the film is a mood piece, a moment in time with Umar, and a tone poem, underscored by a few recording sessions of Umar performing his spoken word poetry.
  — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2019
• Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben is a tour de force for the orchestra — an enormous Romantic tone poem with rich texture and amazing writing for strings, winds and brass.
  — Beth Wood, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• But Disney’s market department, a genius, is marketing Frozen II like a goddamn tone poem: heavy on the atmospherics, light on the details.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 11 June 2019
• Salonen brought out the unabashed eroticism and sensuality of the Richard Dehmel poem that inspired Schoenberg’s tone poem.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 25 May 2018
• This was a contemporary tone poem in which acoustic and electronic sounds intermingled, Yeh somehow riding herd on it all.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2019
• This 45-minute orchestral tone poem, a series of cresting waves and immersive water imagery, caught hold of listeners’ imaginations as few pieces have, and has refused to let go.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• From exquisitely delicate passages to the unbridled roar of the storm, the tone poem was delivered with polish, control, and tremendous musical momentum.
  — Elaine Schmidt, Journal Sentinel, 1 Oct. 2022
• It's widely considered one of his greatest compositions, sometimes described as a tone poem.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2022
• From the muted, mysterious opening of the longer Aida Sinfonia — itself a veritable tone poem of conflicting scenes and emotions — to great scurries of strings and explosions of brass, Luisi had the orchestra on high alert.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2020
• At this juncture in his career — with the early, literary tone poems behind him and the shift to a full focus on opera just getting under way — his ability to deploy instrumental resources for pictorial ends is at a high point.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Apr. 2018
• In time, the students wove their material into something that resembles the theatrical equivalent of an orchestral tone poem.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• This introduction is like a compressed tone poem depicting their lovemaking.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
• The ceremony included a tone poem about the dehumanization of slavery and a performance by Balla Kouyaté, a balafon player from Mali.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2021
• Even beyond this design, Strauss’ tone poem provides a startling range of color, from swirling strings passagework to punctuating brass exhortations to shattering climaxes for the entire ensemble.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024