An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

" When the tone poem moves into the blues, " our American friend ... has succumbed to a spasm of homesickness.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

* 1915 – Richard Strauss conducts the first performance of his tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie in Berlin.

Such repetition can add a sombre tone to a poem, or can be laced with irony as the context of the words changes.

Even in sonnets that don't strictly follow the problem / resolution structure, the ninth line still often marks a " turn " by signaling a change in the tone, mood, or stance of the poem.

The tone of the poem as a whole is a particular matter of debate ; some see the poem as ultimately pessimistic and politically subversive to the Augustan regime, while others view it as a celebration of the new imperial dynasty.

* " Aurora ", an orchestral tone poem by William Lloyd Webber

Masterpieces were written by Edward Elgar ( a violin concerto and a cello concerto ), Sergei Rachmaninoff and Nikolai Medtner ( four and three piano concertos, respectively ), Jean Sibelius ( a violin concerto ), Frederick Delius ( a violin concerto, a cello concerto, a piano concerto and a double concerto for violin and cello ), Karol Szymanowski ( two violin concertos and a " Symphonie Concertante " for piano ), and Richard Strauss ( two horn concertos, a violin concerto, Don Quixote — a tone poem which features the cello as a soloist — and among later works, an oboe concerto ).

However, Holst is said to have considered the short, subdued but powerful tone poem his " best work ".

Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain, and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.

Strauss went on to conduct one of Ritter's operas, and at Strauss's request Ritter later wrote a poem describing the events depicted in Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration.

The new influences from Ritter resulted in what is widely regarded as Strauss's first piece to show his mature personality, the tone poem Don Juan ( 1888 ), which displays a new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner.

The most famous include two concertos for horn, which are still part of the standard repertoire of most horn soloists ; a Violin Concerto in D minor ; the Burleske for piano and orchestra ; the tone poem Don Quixote for cello, viola and orchestra ; the well-known late Oboe Concerto in D major ; and the Duet-Concertino for bassoon, clarinet and orchestra, which was one of his last works ( 1947 ).

" The question is not answered in words, but instead Strauss quotes the " transfiguration theme " from his earlier tone poem, Death and Transfiguration — symbolizing the transfiguration and fulfillment of the soul after death.

He decided on a raven, which he considered " equally capable of speech " as a parrot, because it matched the intended tone of the poem.

*" Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

Saga-Drøm ( Saga Dream ), sometimes known as Gunnar's Dream, is a tone poem for orchestra based on the Icelandic Njal's Saga.

switches the movie from a really interesting, jittery, literate, and witty tone poem about justified contemporary paranoia ( and the creatively unhinged dark side of New York City ) to an overloaded, meandering iteration of a Lethal Weapon project that bears the not-so-secret stamp of audience testing and tinkering.

The String Quartet in E ( 1903 ), which later was worked into the orchestral tone poem Cathaleen-Ni-Houlihan ( 1905 ), is a fine example of how he began to reflect Ireland in his music.

His songs had meanwhile caught the attention of Franz Liszt, whom he respected greatly, and who like Wolf's previous mentors advised him to pursue larger forms ; advice he this time followed with the symphonic tone poem Penthesilea.

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section ( a movement ) in which the content of a poem, a story or novel, a painting, a landscape or another ( non-musical ) source is illustrated or evoked.

In a retrospective review of the single, Allmusic journalist Donald A. Guarisco praised the song, writing: " The music lends contrast to the angry tone of the lyrics by creating a sultry, mellow melody that juxtaposes verses with a soft, hypnotic ebb and flow with an ever-ascending chorus that revs up the song's inherent drama.

The twenty-five-year-old recording offers rather faded string tone, but the balance between the instruments is good and the transfer is very quiet.

He plays his sax principally for beauty of tone, rather than for scintillating flights of meaningless improvisations, and he has a quiet way of getting back and restating the melody after the improvising is over.

Some players use the more nimble tips of the fingers to play fast-moving solo passages or to pluck lightly for quiet tunes. The use of amplification allows the player to have more control over the tone of the instrument, because amplifiers have equalization controls that allow the bassist to accentuate certain frequencies ( often the bass frequencies ) while de-accentuating some frequencies ( often the high frequencies, so that there is less finger noise ).

Marcy Playground is quiet and minimalist in tone.

For example, in general, human beings are unable to perceive a quiet tone played simultaneously with a similar but louder tone.

A lossy compression technique might identify this quiet tone and attempt to remove it.

Depending on the context and the tone of the phrases, it might make everybody quiet, but some people use those words to add rhythm or emphasis to sentences.

His most characteristic paintings are of English domestic scenery, full of quiet tone and colour, and detailed and minute expression of foliage, and with considerable brilliancy of sky effect.

Qualities of this " École " included elegance, a full tone with a sense of drawing a " long " bow with no jerks, precise left hand techniques, and bowing using the whole forearm while keeping both the wrist and upper arm quiet ( as opposed to Joseph Joachim's German school of wrist bowing and Leopold Auer's Russian concept of using the whole arm.

When she speaks, she shouts one word in the sentence very loudly compared to the quiet tone of voice she usually has.

He uses terms like “ quiet despair ”, “ surprised delight ”, “ slight schoolteacher tone ”, and “ the way a nurse speaks to a disturbed patient ”.

Effects range from a very loud tone when shaken strongly, to a quiet rattle when the handle is barely turned.

* The signature sketch of the series sees Joly innocuously present in a public location, often a place of relative quiet such as an art gallery, a library or an internet cafe, when a loud Nokia ring tone sounds.

Hollow-bodied EUBs produce a quiet tone that is loud enough for individual practice.

The show also had a quiet moral tone, as Thomas would explain to Garfield why something he had done or wanted to do was wrong.

Hollow-bodied EUBs produce a quiet tone that is loud enough for individual practice.

`` Moriarty '', my driver suddenly exclaimed with something so definite, so final in his tone I once more repeated the absurdity, mustering all my latent powers of hypocrisy to sound convinced.

The man said with a tone of impatience.

The violinist, in particular, is very indulgent with swoops and slides, and his tone is pinched and edgy.

It is obvious enough that linguists in general have been less successful in coping with tone systems than with consonants or vowels.

This limited familiarity with the possible phenomena has severely hampered work with tone.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.

In vying with him, Mr. D'Albert also seemed to be overdriving his tone.

His letter to his daughter on the pains of growing up is surely as trenchant, forthright, and warmly understanding a piece of advice as ever a grown-up penned to a sensitive child, and with just the right tone of unpatronizing good humor.

He has the temperament and the stage presence for a rousing villain and he sang with character and strong tone.

We'll drop Mr. Rawlings off in Ardmore '', Julia said, and for the merest second George was reminded of her father's tone with servants.

The monitor of this discourse grinned with pride and amusement as Helva's tone indicated pity for the unfortunate.

In Thai, tone is determined primarily by the choice of consonant, with diacritics for disambiguation.

There are only a few aspects which are produced simultaneously, such as tone in some languages, or vowel and consonant harmony, and which are therefore not straightforward to write with an alphabet.

Amethyst can fade in tone if overexposed to light sources and can be artificially darkened with adequate irradiation.

In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.