Noun
symphonic poem (plural symphonic poems)
(music) A piece of orchestral music, in one movement, based on something non-musical, such as a story or a painting.
Brahms strongly preferred writing absolute music that does not refer to an explicit scene or narrative, and he never wrote an opera or a symphonic poem. Source: Internet
Following an intermission, the second half of the concert was entirely dedicated to an expansive symphonic poem dedicated to the series. Source: Internet
Indeed, after Schumann's last symphony, the "Rhenish" composed in 1850, for two decades the Lisztian symphonic poem appeared to have displaced the symphony as the leading form of large-scale instrumental music. Source: Internet
Saint-Saëns 's symphonic poem " Danse Macabre " includes the string section using the col legno technique to imitate the sound of dancing skeletons. Source: Internet
These have included the symphonic poem by Franz Liszt titled Prometheus from 1850, among his other Symphonic Poems (No. 5, S.99). Source: Internet
Roger Lewis of the Financial Times said of the work that "If this book is thought of less as a memoir than as a symphonic poem about post-war England and Englishness – well, then it is a masterpiece." Source: Internet