But in later times it has come to have a much broader application, and to-day, though every serenade is of course a nocturne, all nocturnes are by no means serenades.
Chopin's Nocturnes In derivation and general significance the term nocturne coincides with our English word nocturnal.
To judge him exclusively by his nocturnes and waltzes is precisely like judging Shakespeare solely by his sonnets.
In portraits he is at his best when they are near to his Nocturnes in intention, when the theme lends itself to an imaginative and decorative treatment; for instance, as in the mother or Miss Alexander.
His nocturnes are vastly more beautiful and original than those of Field; they have greater variety, deeper tenderness, and in every way are more distinguished and characteristic.
The nocturnes appear, at first sight, to have most affinity with forms already created.
He used the tempo rubato with great effect, not only in his nocturnesbut also in many of his mazurkas.
He played also a host of new studies, nocturnes and mazurkas, all of them inimitable.
He said, on that occasion, that the quicker middle movements which Chopin frequently introduces into his nocturnes are often weaker than his first conceptions, meaning the first portions of the nocturnes.
Liszt's statement that the Nocturnes of Field were regarded by Chopin as "insuffisants" seems to me disproved by unexceptionable evidence.
That, however, there is much to be admired in the class now under consideration will be seen from the following brief comments on the eighteennocturnes (leaving out of account the one of the year 1828 published by Fontana as Op.
Among Chopin's nocturnes some of his most popular works are to be found.
The two nocturnes (in C minor and F sharp minor) which form Op.
When my mother bore me she wore a medallion containing a portrait of the great master, and my father, who was his pupil, played the nocturnes for her.
In some of the Nocturnes the absence, not only of definition, but of gradation, would point to the conclusion that they are but engaging sketches.
I think Mr. Wedmore takes the Nocturnes and Arrangements too seriously.
In his nocturnes there is a glimmering as of distant stars.
In his nocturnes and mazurkas he is unrivalled, downright fabulous.
Schumann's, when he reviewed some nocturnes by Count Wielhorski.
Opus 55, two nocturnes in F minor and E flat major, need not detain us long.
Chopin loved the night and its soft mysteries as much as did Robert Louis Stevenson, and his nocturnes are true night pieces, some with agitated, remorseful countenance, others seen in profile only, while many are whisperings at dusk.
In a small auditorium, and from the fingers of a sympathetic pianist, the nocturnes should be heard, that their intimate, night side may be revealed.
He said that the quick middle movements which Chopin frequently introduced into his nocturnes are often weaker than his first conceptions; meaning the first portions of his nocturnes.
One of the most elegiac of his nocturnes is the first in B flat minor.
As Schumann wrote of this opus: "The two nocturnes differ from his earlier ones chiefly through greater simplicity of decoration and more quiet grace.
Here we find a Chopin fuller fledged than in the nocturnes and variations, and probably because of the form.
But the reviewers appear to have belonged to neither category, for the reception they gave to the nocturnes was to put their heads together and say, “he has stolen it from Field!
A composition like "Nuages," the first of the three nocturnes for orchestra, while taking but five minutes in performance, outweighs any number of compositions that last an hour.
I refer, especially, to the endings of his last two nocturnes and to the final bars of the mazurka, opus 59, No.
The real anguish of his heart is not expressed in the nocturnes but in the preludes and études, strange as these names may seem for such pathetic effusions of his heart.
The nocturnes represent the dreamy side of Chopin's genius.
In speaking of Chopin's melancholy character, the nocturnes are often referred to as illustrations of it.
But just as dreams are sometimes agitated and dramatic, so some of these nocturnes are complete little dramas with stormy, tragic episodes, and the one in C sharp minor, e.
Morbid these Nocturnes undoubtedly are in many parts, and yet they often rise to the dignity of elegy, and sometimes even of tragedy.
Probably the most familiar of all the Nocturnes is the one in E flat, the second in the first set, Opus 9.
There are greater nocturnes than the one in G, Opus 37, No.
If Chopin had not written the Nocturnes I doubt if those who play and those who comment on him would err so often in attributing such an excess of morbidness to him as they do, or lay the charge of effeminacy against him.
His cosmos bulged with ego of such density that he and his pastels and nocturnes were crowded together in it indistinguishably.
Tertullian and Minucius Felix speak frequently of the "nocturnes convocationes," or "nocturnes congregationes" of the Christians.
The great Pre-Raphaelite had invited the painter of nocturnes and harmonies to dine with him at his house in Chelsea, and when Whistler arrived he was shown into a reception-room.
While painting one of his famous nocturnes a critic of considerable pretensions called.
Chopin played first a number of nocturnes and studies, and was admired and petted like a favourite.
In playing these nocturnes there occurred to me a remark of Schumann's, made when he reviewed some nocturnes by Count Wielhorski.
Chopin schooled his pupils most assiduously and carefully in the Nocturnes as well as in the Concertos of Field, who was, to use Madame Dubois's words, "an author very sympathetic to him.
They were rather large in size, and resembled his painted nocturnes in general treatment.
The works of the pre-Raphaelites were praised but Whistler's nocturnes were ignored or sneered at.
Some one remembers seeing the nocturnes set out along the garden wall to bake in the sun, sometimes they dried out like body colour in the most unexpected manner.
Mr. Greaves says, that the nocturnes were mostly painted on very absorbant canvas, sometimes on panels, sometimes on bare brown holland sized.
In many nocturnes the entire sky and water is rendered with great sweeps of the brush exactly the right tone.
For the blue nocturnes the canvas was covered with a red ground, or the panel was of mahogany, which had the advantage of forcing up the blues.
Undoubtedly, the most popular of the nocturnes is the one in E flat, Op.
There are nocturnes of Chopin's composed on a larger scale than the Opus 37, No.
They are fresh and untrammeled in their development, and as full of sunlight as the nocturnes are of darkness.
Similar treatment of the sonatas, ballades, and nocturnes would surely be a different thing.
Liszt played three Chopin nocturnesand a scherzo of his own.
The Nocturnes were not worthy the name of great works of art.
Here he lived longer than anywhere else; here he painted the Nocturnes and the great portraits; here he gave his Sunday breakfasts.
At night, on the river and at Cremorne, he was never without brown paper and black and white chalk, with which he made his notes for the Nocturnes and the seemingly simple, but really complicated, firework pictures.
There is no doubt that he carried tradition further and made greater advance in the Nocturnes than in any of his paintings.
A portrait started of Lord Redesdale, in Van Dyck costume, and several Nocturnes were torn off stretchers and slashed.
The painting of the Nocturnes continued for many years, and in many places.
This is the beautiful Battersea, with the touch of red in the roofs of the opposite shore, the link between the early paintings on the river and the Nocturnes that were to follow.
During the trial one of the Nocturnes were handed across the court over the people's heads, so that Whistler might verify it as his work.
To a dealer in rugs Whistler would have given three Nocturnes in payment, but the dealer refused and spent the rest of his life regretting it.
For the exhibitions of 1883 he had no new work, but sent two earlier Nocturnes to the Grosvenor and to the Salon the Mother, and was awarded a third-class medal, the only recompense he ever received at the Salon.
To buy his Nocturnes was to be ridiculed, Mr. Rawlinson, one of the few who risked it, assures us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nocturnes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
