For Madeline he called constantly; and she sat on his knee by the hour while he danced the jumping-jack outrageously and taught her to sing to the doll a certain foolish berceuse that Poitou mothers sing to their babies.
The plaintive melody of the berceuse rang in her ears on duty and off, till at last she could stand it no longer.
As she passed each corpse she knelt beside it and sang the foolish little berceuse that Poitou mothers sing to their babies.
He has written for strings a berceuse and a scherzino, which have been played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and certain part songs, as well as a chorus for female voices and string orchestra, have been sung in London.
Gounod, again, has some admirable qualities, but among them is not included any great gift for uniformity, beyond the limits of a Berceuse or a Serenade.
The nocturnes--including theBerceuse and Barcarolle--should seldom be played in public and not the public of a large hall.
Niecks quotes Alexandre Dumas fils, who calls the Berceuse "muted music," but introduces a Turkish bath comparison, which crushes the sentiment.
This completes the nocturne list, but following Niecks' system of formal grouping I include the Berceuse and Barcarolle as full fledged specimens of nocturnes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "berceuse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
