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etude::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
Examples of etude
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Especially impressive is the hand-crippling D-flat major etude of Opus 25.
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Students must perform scales or rudiments and a short etude of about one to two minutes.
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His first public recital, at the age of eight, included an etude of his own composition.
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Intimate Strangers is not a dry little intellectual etude for two hands.
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He treats the work as a full-scale tone poem rather than a prolonged etude, savoring each section.
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The Liszt, he pointed out, focuses on a descending chromatic scale, just like the sixth etude.
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It does integrate some lively rhythms, however, but Marsalis played it all pretty straight, like an etude.
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Mr. Vreeke takes the cast through the play with the grace of classical musicians performing an etude.
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A Rachmaninoff prelude was almost washed away by the church acoustics, but a Scriabin etude glittered like a mosaic.
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- A short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity
- An u00E9tude (/ u02C8eu026Atjuu02D0d/; French pronunciation:u00A0u200B, a French word meaning study) is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill. The tradition of writing u00E9tudes emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popularity of the piano...
- "u00C9tude" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). It is from the album The Killing Fields, the soundtrack album for the film of the same name . It was reissued in 1990, when it was used in a commercial for Nurofen. The 1990 release also featured a track called "Gakkaen" by The Ono Gagaku Kai Society.
- u00C9tudes is a one-act ballet choreographed by Danish dancer and choreographer Harald Lander to piano studies by Carl Czerny arranged for orchestra by Knudu00E5ge Riisager. It is considered Lander's most famous choreographic work and brought him international fame...
- A short piece of music, designed to give a soloist performer practice in a particular area or skill
- Alternative spelling of etude
- A study piece with exemplary compositional style.
- A study - hence, a piece of music meant to give practice in instrumental technique.
- 1962. Cl. Ms. CBC SM-184/4-ACM 9 (J. Campbell)
