Musical composition inspired by, or evocative of, the night.
A pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
1 Mr. Whistler confines himself to two small canvases of the nocturne kind.
2 It is a nice nocturne , neat in its sorrow, yet not epoch-making.
3 It was a nocturne with a recurring musical phrase running through it.
4 The posthumous nocturne in E minor, composed in 1827, is weak and uninteresting.
5 The recently discovered nocturne in C sharp minor is hardly a treasure trove.
6 Willeby finds a resemblance to the theme of the first nocturne .
7 The ineluctable fact remains that this is the noblest nocturne of them all.
8 The Barcarolle is a nocturne painted on a large canvas, with larger brushes.
9 He hears the Chopin nocturne through the walls, and it sounds almost ethereal.
10 Compare, for example, the effect of a Whistler nocturne with a Monet landscape.
11 Madame so-and-so said: Please, play this pretty nocturne dedicated to Mdlle.
12 A luscious touch, and a sympathetic soul is needed for this nocturne study.
13 Bovyne, solemnly, You are right, it is a nocturne and a wonderful one.
14 From valse to nocturne , from sonata to prelude, her fancy ran.
15 His choice was three manuscripts of Chopin's, one of them being this nocturne .
16 The picture called the nocturne in blue and silver, was now produced in Court.
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