When on one occasion Meyerbeer had fallen out with his wife, he sat down to the piano and played a nocturne or some other composition which Chopin had sent him.
A beautiful sensuousness distinguishes the nocturne in G major: it is luscious, soft, rounded, and not without a certain degree of languor.
The second nocturne (in E flat major) differs in form from the other nocturnes in this, that it has no contrasting second section, the melody flowing onward from begining to end in a uniform manner.
Madame so-and-so said: "Please, play this pretty nocturnededicated to Mdlle.
Frontispiece (In the National Gallery) This nocturne was bought by the National Collections Fund from the Whistler Memorial Exhibition.
In resuming the Attorney-General said: "Let them examine the nocturne in blue and silver, said to represent Battersea Bridge.
The nocturne comes to an end, your friend rises, greets your wondering look with a smile, and meets your amazed query with one word: "Pianola!
Anyhow, soul or no soul, his rendering of the Nocturne was a revelation.
Of the Chopin Nocturne in D flat as rendered yesterday afternoon it is difficult to speak in measured terms.
The nocturne was beautiful in its largeness and silence.
He stayed a moment to admire thenocturne and was glad that he had lived to see all this beauty.
Nocturne When lovers lie In summer grass And watch the cloud ships As they pass, Love is a blend Of pain and bliss .
City You, the Sower of Seed Nightmare Contact Autumn is Unfair Nocturne Portrait of Father Small Christmas Tree Ladies at Tea Portrait Hill-top, Caledon You, Being Dead Dilemma Night Garden Some Quiet Day .
It is a nocturnebecause it is "dreamily romantic or sentimental.
In his useful and handy "Dictionary of Musical Terms," Theodore Baker defines a nocturne as a title for a piano piece "of a dreamily romantic or sentimental character, but lacking a distinctive form.
Then there is number nineteen in C sharp minor, like a nocturne with the melody in the left hand, with the right hand answering as a flute would a 'cello.
This is the case, for example, in the beautiful nocturne in G, Opus 37, No.
Mazurka, polonaise, and nocturne wailed in the stuffy chamber; her little hands lit up the enchanted gloom of the place with bright thrills.
In the twelfth bar of the well-known Nocturne in E flat (Op.
You choose this Nocturne because you have played it nearly every day for four weeks.
Your Cecilia played the two new waltzes, and the Nocturne of Chopin, and Beethoven's trio very nicely.
One thing more: you know very well Chopin's Nocturne in E flat, and have played it, among other things, for the last four weeks.
It is from a charming Nocturne, by Chopin, and is so difficult that I shall have to play it over fifty times, or else I shall always stumble at this place, and I never shall know the Nocturne to play to any one.
Sidenote: Taking Liberties with the Tempo] In playing Chopin may one take liberties with the tempo and play different parts of the same mazurka or nocturne in various degrees of tempo?
Before the end of the nocturne carriage bells are heard outside.
Tónya goes to the piano and plays a nocturne by Chopin.
It was the chapter on the siege of Leyden; and the wild, fantastic nocturne by Chopin which Georgie was playing, seemed to blend and mix itself with the tragic narrative.
