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Etude

noun
1.
A short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity.






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"Etude" Quotes from Famous Books



... de qui ma solitude Recoit ces chants plaintifs, sans nom, que vous jetez Sous mes yeux ombrages du camail de l'etude. Oubliez les enfants par la mort arretes; Oubliez Chatterton, Gilbert et Malfilatre; De l'oeuvre d'avenir saintement idolatre, Enfin, oubliez l'homme ...
— French Lyrics • Arthur Graves Canfield

... of the learned M. Groen van Prinsterer,—[Maurice et Barnevelt, Etude Historique. Utrecht, 1875.]—devoted expressly to the revision and correction of what the author considers the erroneous views of Mr. Motley on certain important points, bears, notwithstanding, such sincere and hearty tribute to his industry, ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... Fravashis Etude sur les Traces dans le Mazdeisme d'une Ancienne Conception sur la Survivance ...
— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... classes pour enfants arrieres. Bulletin de la Societe libre pour l'etude psychologique de l'enfant (1911), ...
— The Measurement of Intelligence • Lewis Madison Terman

... Private Life,' which consist of twenty-four novels, novelettes, and tales, under the following titles: 'Beatrix,' 'Albert Savarus,' 'La Fausse maitresse' (The False Mistress), 'Le Message' (The Message), 'La Grande Breteche,' 'Etude de femme' (Study of Woman), 'Autre etude de femme' (Another Story of Woman), 'Madame Firmiani,' 'Modeste Mignon,' 'Un Debut dans la vie' (An Entrance upon Life), 'Pierre Grassou,' 'Memoires de deux jeunes mariees' (Recollections of a Young Couple), 'La Maison ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... Fernique (Etude sur Preneste, p. 119) thinks this the building the ruins of which are of brick and called a temple, near the Ponte dell' Ospedalato, but this is impossible. The date of the brick work is all much later than the date assigned to it by him, and much later than the ...
— A Study Of The Topography And Municipal History Of Praeneste • Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

... all nonsense. I say teach them the scales, to run up and down the gamut! Gradus ad Parnassum's the thing! Classical, classical! Yesterday you made your daughter play that Trill-Etude by Carl Meyer. Altogether too fine-sounding! It tickles the ear, to be sure, especially when it is played in such a studied manner. We stick to Clementi and Cramer, and to Hummel's piano-school,—the good old school. You have made a great mistake ...
— Piano and Song - How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of - Musical Performances • Friedrich Wieck

... dans l'obscurite, Ses loisirs a l'etude, a l'amitie sa vie, Sont des plaisirs dignes d'envie; Etre cheri vaut mieux ...
— A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 • W.D. Fellowes

... Montfaucon's Antiquite Expliquee en Figures; Specimens of Ancient Sculpture, by the Society of Dilettanti, London, 1809; Ancient Marbles of the British Museum, by Taylor Combe; Millin, Introduction a l'Etude des Monuments Antiques; Monuments Inedits d'Antiquite figuree, recuellis et publies par Raoul-Rochette; Gerhard's Archaeologische Zeitung; David's Essai sur le Classement Chronologique des Sculpteurs ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume III • John Lord



Words linked to "Etude" :   piece of music, opus, piece, musical composition, composition



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