But there was more to the work than tone painting.

Mr. Hartke brings some deft tone painting to his work.

There is even a nod to the time-honored tradition of tone painting, in the form of a violent storm at sea.

"The Tempest" is a colorful tone painting, well served by the warm sound of the orchestra.

A movement of tone painting with bass narration.

But Ives the composer never regarded his tone paintings as "pretty."

The orchestral vocabulary - borrowed and of a certain age - is still tone painting that works.

There is, in fact, a great deal of tone painting here, with musical gestures mirroring literary imagery.

Chief among its attractions are its vivid tone painting.

Very little actually happens, but Copland was up to the task of carrying the audience along with stretches of tone painting.