word painting

n. full and vivid description of an object by words only; effective description expressed in words

Word painting (also known as tone painting or text painting) is the musical technique of having the music mimic the literal meaning of a song. For example, ascending scales would accompany lyrics about going up; slow, dark music would accompany lyrics about death.Composers began experimenting with word painting in Italian madrigals of the 16th and 17th centuries. Word painting flourished well into the Baroque music period. One well known example occurs in Handel's Messiah, where a tenor aria contains Handel's setting of the text:Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made low; the crooked straight, and the rough places plain. (Isaiah 40:4)
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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

Synonyms and related words:
Vorstellung, cameo, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, characterization, concept, conception, conceptualization, delineation, depiction, description, details, eidetic image, envisaging, envisioning, evocation, graphic account, image, imagery, imagery study, imaging, imagism, imagistic poetry, impression, itemization, lifelike image, limning, mental image, mental picture, mental representation, objectification, particularization, photograph, picture, picturing, poetic imagery, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, profile, rendering, rendition, representation, sketch, specification, vignette, vision, visual image, visualization, vivid description, word painting
  

word-painting /'wə:d,peintiɳ/
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