word-painting

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Word painting
Word painting (also known as tone painting or text painting) is the musical technique of writing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song. For example, ascending scales would accompany lyrics about going up; slow, dark music would accompany lyrics about death.

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Sinnbild (Musik)
Ein Sinnbild ist in der Musik eine durch bestimmte Kompositionstechniken ermöglichte Darstellung eines außermusikalischen Sinngehaltes.

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word-painting
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word-painting

word-painting
n : a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in poland" [syn: word picture, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation]





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word-painting

Noun
1. a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters"
(synonym) word picture, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation
(hypernym) description, verbal description
(hyponym) epithet