Music Video Lesson: What is a Tone Poem?

Hi. I'm Robert Estrin, and this is LivingPianos.com. Today, you're going to listen to a tone poem. Now, why is this so unusual? Well, a tone poem on a piano is pretty unusual. The tone poem is an art form, orchestral works, mammoth works, some of them approaching an hour or longer. Richard Strauss wrote, for example, Ein Heldenleben, A Hero's Life, and Wagner, even Debussy wrote Afternoon of a Faun and other tone poems.

What are tone poems? It's music that is inspired by stories, and you can take it both ways. I'm going to play it for you now, and you see what kind of images come to your mind for the music that you're about to hear.

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For those of you familiar with tone poems, you may have noticed the idea of the leitmotifs. Those are familiar little riffs, if you will, that occur again and again in tone poems. I hope you've enjoyed this is. There's more to come. Again, subscribe to Living Piano's videos to get more of these. I'm Robert Estrin here at LivingPianos.com. Thanks for joining me.

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