Symphonic poem

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What Wikipedia says

A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other non-musical source.

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Image: University of Rochester. Eastman School of Music. Sibley Music Library, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.