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Nocturne

noun
1.
A pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano).  Synonym: notturno.






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"Nocturne" Quotes from Famous Books



... Songs," was published. It contains, among other things of merit, a lullaby, called "Sleep, Little Tulip," with a remarkably artistic and effective pedal-point on two notes (the submediant and the dominant) sustained through the entire song with a fine fidelity to the words and the lullaby spirit; a "Nocturne" in which Nevin has revealed an unsuspected voluptuousness in Mr. Aldrich' little lyric, and has written a song of irresistible climaxes. The two songs, "Dites-Moi" and "In der Nacht," each so completely true to the idiom of the language ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes

... recognise the confidential stoop of his shoulders when he discusses la haute politique," said the dandy diplomatist. "But what a sacrilege upon a night like this! What a nocturne in blue and silver might be suggested by that moon rising above the desert. There is a movement in one of Mendelssohn's songs which seems to embody it all— a sense of vastness, of repetition, the cry of the wind over an interminable expanse. The subtler emotions which ...
— The Tragedy of The Korosko • Arthur Conan Doyle

... better put something on that eye of yours. It will probably resemble a Whistler 'Nocturne' by morning. What are you ...
— Mr. Opp • Alice Hegan Rice



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



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