Meanings of étude in English

Bring out all the musical qualities of the étude.

Beaumont said that she was "Une étude en jaune."

It is a little étude in cruelty.

If one is far advanced a few arpeggios and scales, or a brilliant étude will put the hand in condition.

And just like an étude, or any other exercise you do: Whatever your weak size is, you're gonna hit it.

A Chopin étude stormed from her fingers as she fought not to think of what William might want to do next.

Each étude must also be transposed, for it would never do to play an étude twice in the same key for my father.

First some finger movements, perhaps with fingers in an extended chord position; then some scales and arpeggios; then a Chopin étude, and so on.

The starting point was an evening visit to a butterfly greenhouse, and the work's 12 contrasted sections are like a series of étude-like character studies.

He was singing to me now, singing in French, singing some lyrics put to the beautiful Chopin étude "Tristesse"...

I give very few études, and those I administer in homeopathic doses.

Yes, I give some Czerny to my students; not many études however.

High and piercing; soft and muted; creating tonepoems and études there in its lonely grandeur.

With all the technic exercises, I had many études also; a great deal of Czerny.

There is a set of six Rubinstein Studies which I use, including the Staccato Étude.

Yes, that was the Étude in C Minor.