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nocturne::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | notturno |
| Type of | composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
Examples of nocturne
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The singer of another familiar summer nocturne remains a mystery to most people.
From the post-gazette.com
Nocturne is attractive, with very good food and a caring staff.
From the nytimes.com
Nocturne is owned by Mark and Suzanne Hrisho and their son Mark.
From the nytimes.com
With this latest series, he solos on a fall nocturne.
From the lens.blogs.nytimes.com
He developed on the nocturne, invented by John Field, taking it to a deeper level of sophistication.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Impishly, he ends this disc with a nocturne, Op 9 No 2, as if to show that it is actually a waltz in disguise.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Chekhov is not wholly Chekhovian without a certain hauntingly sad fragility, like a Chopin nocturne heard by moonlight.
From the time.com
Veteran cinematographer Chris Menges plunges us into a sickly green neon nocturne of seedy bars and cheap motels.
From the cnn.com
With their playful banter and exquisite harmonies, they create music that is as haunting as a nocturne, soothing as a lullaby.
From the usatoday.com
- A pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
- A nocturne (from the French which meant nocturnal, from Latin nocturnus) is usually a musical composition that is inspired by, or evocative of, the night. Historically, nocturne is a very old term applied to night Offices and, since the Middle Ages, to divisions in the canonical hour of Matins.
- Nocturne (1946) is a black-and-white film noir starring George Raft and Lynn Bari. The film was produced by longtime Alfred Hitchcock associate Joan Harrison, scripted by Jonathan Latimer, and directed by Edwin L. Marin.
- November's Chopin is Jay Chou's 6th studio album, which was released on November 1, 2005. It was the highest selling album of 2006 in Taiwan, beating Jolin Tsai's "J-Game", which ranked second. ...
- Nocturne is a live double-album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in 1983 and remastered in 2009, which features performances recorded at two shows at the Royal Albert Hall on September 30 and October 1, 1983, featuring Robert Smith (of The Cure) on guitar.
- Nocturne is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
- Nocturne is an industrial rock band that was formed in 1999 in Dallas, Texas. The band is formed of two core members, Lacey Conner and Chris Telkes, and several touring musicians, usually Ben Graves of the Murderdolls and "Rotten" Rotny also guitar player of the industrial/metal band Psyclon ...
- Nocturne for tenor, 7 obligato instruments & strings is song cycle by Benjamin Britten. Premiered at the Leeds Festival in October 1958, it is his fourth and final orchestral song cycle, after Our Hunting Fathers (1936), Les Illuminations (1939) and Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1943). ...
- Nocturne is a code name used by four separate fictional characters in the Marvel Comics Universe. This article deals with Talia Josephine "T.J." Wagner, formerly associated with the reality-hopping Exiles and New Excalibur.
