nocturne
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- noun
- /nɒkˈtɜrn/
- Specialized
:
nocturno
- Joan and Harry are seated on the couch having coffee as they listen to a Chopin nocturne.
- Harlem Nocturne
Examples
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Richard Nanes's Nocturnes of the Celestial Seas plays softly in the background, the rhapsodic, richly chorded Nocturne in C.
Fiction book (1998) -
She listened to Chopin's nocturne as the moonlight danced across her window.
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You played chopin nocturne op. 9 no. 2.
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What is more intimate than a Chopin nocturne?
Academic text (1992) -
She's going to be playing a Chopin nocturne and go.
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We spent there a beautiful week, filled with promise, and returned home with three excellent compositions for the piano and a short nocturne for flute, two horns, strings, and oboe.
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He wished for another toccata, a deranged scherzo—anything but this melancholy nocturne.
Fiction book (2000) -
The concert featured a beautiful nocturne that evoked the tranquility of a quiet night.
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He composed a short nocturne for piano that captured the essence of twilight.
Synonyms
A slow, quiet piano piece that feels like the night
How Dreamy
- Specialized
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Etymology
Nocturne comes from the Latin word nocturnus, meaning 'of the night', and is related to the English word nocturnal. So a nocturne is a short, dreamy piece of music that tries to capture the quiet, calm, or mystery of night.