nocturne
IPA: nˈɑktɝn
noun
- A work of art relating or dedicated to the night.
- (music) A dreamlike or pensive composition, usually for the piano.
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Examples of "nocturne" in Sentences
- A nocturne is a piece of music inspired by, or evocative of, the night ...
- The picture called the nocturne in blue and silver, was now produced in Court.
- There is unhealthy power in this nocturne, which is seldom interpreted with sinister subtlety.
- The question is whether either is a nocturne, which is to say a picture whose subject is the night.
- A good Chopin CD is Jean Yves Thibaudet's "The Chopin I Love"; there's quite a bit on that CD, including the E-flat major nocturne, which is my absolute favorite.
- Wyn Davies conducts with a panache that locates Lehár's subtler colours – the violin nocturne that precedes the final act is every bit as exquisite as the rambunctious waltz.
- It is like a "nocturne" written by a musician who has wandered through all the cities of Europe with a company of beggar-players, playing masques of death to the occupants of all the cemeteries.
- When I’m inspired, whether it’s from the flaming crimson leaves that are beginning to explode across the horizon, a Chopin nocturne, or a well crafted novel, I feel a sense of excitement, an electrical surge of creative energy which seems other-worldly.
- J Hoberman in the Voice on Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, now screening at the IFC Center through Tuesday: Albeit closer to ballet than drama, this urban nocturne is one of Tsai's most beautiful and naturalistic films - at least in terms of its rich, humid, almost viscous ambience.
- The name nocturne was invented by John Field, who wrote twelve pieces with this title (the remaining ones of the twenty usually printed were named by the publishers) which are, in effect, sonnets; little lyric pieces, of greater or less depth, having the general type of a song without words, but preferably of a melancholy or tender character, and the form of a melody with accompaniment.
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