tonemaleri

English translation: tone-painting

11:04 Nov 23, 2009
Norwegian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
Norwegian term or phrase: tonemaleri
"Kritikere beskriver gjerne akkompagnementene til Backer Grøndahl som "rene Virtuosnummere i Tonemaleri"
brigidm
Norway
Local time: 23:55
English translation:tone-painting
Explanation:
Bridging the turn-of-the-century, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) helped usher in the contemporary era. Rich tone painting evoked the lush chromaticism of the 19th-century Romantics
http://classicalmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/richard_strau...

frequently used tone-painting in the most literal and obvious meaning of the term. ...
http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/LVII/1/62.pdf

for colorful timbres, tone painting, and descriptive orchestral music
http://books.google.pl/books?id=DoylvxMVL_0C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA6...

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Note added at 25 mins (2009-11-23 11:29:50 GMT)
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Or, if you think your audience can handle some German:

Tonmalerei stood at their heart from the first, and to an entirely new degree. ...
http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/84/2/238.pd

Early nineteenth-century critics of 'descriptive' music what the later nineteenth century called `Tonmalerei' or even simply `programme music' (in the ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_199910/ai_n8...

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Bjørnar Magnussen
Local time: 23:55
Grading comment
Thanks, Bjørnar (but I dropped the hypen - you know how I feel about them ;-))
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tone-painting


Explanation:
Bridging the turn-of-the-century, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) helped usher in the contemporary era. Rich tone painting evoked the lush chromaticism of the 19th-century Romantics
http://classicalmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/richard_strau...

frequently used tone-painting in the most literal and obvious meaning of the term. ...
http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/LVII/1/62.pdf

for colorful timbres, tone painting, and descriptive orchestral music
http://books.google.pl/books?id=DoylvxMVL_0C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA6...

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Note added at 25 mins (2009-11-23 11:29:50 GMT)
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Or, if you think your audience can handle some German:

Tonmalerei stood at their heart from the first, and to an entirely new degree. ...
http://mq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/84/2/238.pd

Early nineteenth-century critics of 'descriptive' music what the later nineteenth century called `Tonmalerei' or even simply `programme music' (in the ...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3870/is_199910/ai_n8...



Bjørnar Magnussen
Local time: 23:55
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Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian
PRO pts in category: 19
Grading comment
Thanks, Bjørnar (but I dropped the hypen - you know how I feel about them ;-))

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