This example can also be described as "word painting".

The following soprano aria is also brief but includes significant word painting.

The orchestra plays a distinct role in word painting.

Word painting flourished well into the Baroque music period.

Alternatively, melisma may also be used for word painting.

The movement includes several instances of word painting.

It features vivid word painting and rich, strikingly unpredictable harmonies.

Composers also experimented with word painting in Italian madrigals of the 16th and 17th centuries.

At the transition between the second verse and the chorus Phair uses the song's unusual key structure as a type of word painting.

Since the early 60's, Mr. Beery has been making word paintings that look and read like signs you see in shop windows.

More word painting occurs in a low note for "low" and a complicated figure for "crooked".

Farmer uses clever word painting.

(He worked for a printer and learned to set type; the word paintings, he says, were like designing book jackets.)

The movement is remarkable for its "reaching" obbligato violin and for the multiple instances of word painting throughout the vocal line.

The very first of Ruscha's word paintings were created as oil paintings on paper in Paris in 1961.

Handel is famous for employing word painting - the musical technique of having the melody mimic its lyrics - in many of his works.

Word painting is applied on the text "darkness" and "death" which is presented with chromaticism, symbolic of death.

The soprano recitative uses word painting and sustained chordal harmonies to urge the listener into heaven.

Although his textures were, by current standards, old-fashioned at the time, his word painting proves his acquaintance with the newest Italian music.

Their work ranges from minimalist word paintings to grainy photographs of suburban homes to sculptures made of musical devices and instruments.

And the couple were forced to get rid of their headboard and purchase a hospital bed in order to accommodate a Sean Landers word painting.

But for the Jews, he is the first true choral composer, one who moreover set texts with a genius for word painting that still blows minds today.

Another contemporary work chosen by the Obamas is a word painting by the California artist Ed Ruscha.

Word painting (also known as tone painting or text painting) is the musical technique of writing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song.