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The 11 pages that link to Word painting, each with the reason it gives.

• Renaissance musicRelated: Madrigal composers used it to make poetic images audible.

• Franz SchubertRelated: Schubert’s piano parts imitate such details as a spinning wheel or a galloping horse.

• MadrigalRelated: Madrigal composers often shaped musical gestures around particular words.

• LiedRelated: Lied composers use musical motion and texture to make particular words vivid.

• Renaissance polyphonyRelated: Renaissance composers sometimes shaped vocal lines to reflect the text's imagery.

• Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaRelated: Palestrina’s text-responsive gestures show that restraint need not mean emotional neutrality.

• Missa Papae MarcelliCompared with: The Mass’s clarity comes chiefly from texture and declamation, not conspicuous musical illustration of words.

• Francis PoulencRelated: His vocal music often makes a poem’s details audible through direct, sharply chosen gestures.

• Thomas TallisRelated: Tallis’s text-sensitive writing makes sacred language audible through musical expression.

• Tomás Luis de VictoriaRelated: Victoria sometimes heightens textual meaning through shifts in register, rhythm, and texture.

• Carlo GesualdoRelated: Gesualdo’s vocal lines often make a poem’s emotional images audible.