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tone painting

noun

  1. musical description, by harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic means, of the words of a text or the story elements in program music.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tone painting1

First recorded in 1900–05
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There is experimentation with found-object percussion, and recent Glass touches including colorful texture, expressive shifts in harmony and soundtrack-like tone painting.

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And the “Pastoral,” which is easy to read as folk-inspired tone painting, was here more subtly evocative than straightforwardly illustrative.

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A gorgeous encore, Henry Purcell’s “Music for a While,” from Fretwork and Davies’s lovely Nyman and Purcell disc released earlier this year on Signum Classics, closed out the evening with its rapturous phrasing and charming tone painting.

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This allowed Ms. Coleman to show off her gifts for tone painting.

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The first part, in which shy, secretive Tom attempts the delicate balance of male bonding and “no homo” with his teammates, is mostly tone painting.

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