| 单词 | nocturne |
| 例句 | She got my bathrobe for me, and then she dried my hair with those powerful fingers of hers as gently as she might coax a nocturne from our old piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I got up and rifled through my shoebox of CDs until I found a collection of Chopin’s nocturnes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Chopin’s 21 nocturnes, written over the course of nearly his whole composing life, are single-movement pieces of generally less than six minutes. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Nelsons is good on the unease of the opening, the violence of the Infernal Dance and the strange undertones of sensuality in the swaying nocturne with which the Firebird hypnotises the monsters at Kashchey's court. Stravinsky: The Firebird; Symphony of Psalms 2010-05-13T21:40:00Z Wyn Davies conducts with a panache that locates Lehár's subtler colours – the violin nocturne that precedes the final act is every bit as exquisite as the rambunctious waltz. The Merry Widow ? review 2010-10-18T21:00:00Z The Bach suite was unfailingly musical, each phrase shaped with dynamic contrasts and a luxurious legato that would do a Chopin nocturne proud. Review | Murray Perahia recital packed with canonic masterpieces, to uneven effect 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z But the subjects of Ivey’s nocturnes — unlike the ones now on display in the Freer Gallery’s “Whistler in Watercolor” — don’t seem remote. Review | In the galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z After I recorded the nocturnes, I did think about the order. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z It’s also true of his urban nocturnes, which feature gray, stripped-down houses, apartment buildings and skyscrapers in whose windows tiny silhouetted figures enact terse domestic dramas against bright yellow light. The Keeper: Roger Brown, the Artist as Voracious Collector 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z He played all the notes but suggested few of the extroverted charms of a work that jumps from nocturne to mania. Music Review: Jan Lisiecki Makes Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-12-14T22:19:09Z Subtle speeding and slowing of the pulse, growing louder or softer, and drawing back to prepare a shift in harmony are expressive devices that make a Chopin nocturne, for instance, live and breathe. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Field’s nocturnes have similar moods, but careful listening reveals that Roe makes each an individual portrait. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But he won over the audience and played an encore, a tender account of a dreamy Tchaikovsky nocturne. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Jacobs’s textures were also beautifully varied in the “Prière,” the trumpet mellowed by the vast space without losing its focus; the “Prélude, Fugue et Variation” was a wistful nocturne, sensitively controlled and never overblown. Review: For Franck’s 200th, an Organist Pays Grand Tribute 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z A nocturne showing two male figures standing at the edge of a circus ring, the painting had been acquired directly from the artist and is estimated to sell for between $50,000 to $70,000. Will Global Jitters Dull the Glitter of New York’s Art Gigaweek? 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The exhibition at Tate Liverpool ought to be an incendiary nocturne of sensuality. Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z Field began composing nocturnes for piano while living in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the early 19th century, where he enjoyed a lavish, Lisztian life as a darling of the nobility. Music Review: Celebrating an Irishman Who Preceded Chopin 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z Written two decades ago by Mr. Distler, “Woman Who Danced” is an exquisitely gentle nocturne with a slow, easy step. Music Review: Memorials and Reveries in a Cozy Cabaret Setting 2011-08-22T22:39:58Z What followed was sometimes conflicted, sometimes playful, as col legno thuds halted the swaggering first nocturne in its tracks, and moments of exaggerated sensuality swelled the shadowy central scherzo. DSO Berlin/Metzmacher 2010-08-11T10:58:00Z The most atmospheric of these arrays feature Baltimore scenes by E. Brady Robinson, whose upward-gazing camera often lands on clouds, and uncanny nocturnes by Elena Volkova, who views light and shadow through a lens darkly. Review | In the galleries: Exploring the tension between physical and digital art 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The necessity arose in 1960, when his recording of Chopin nocturnes was released with liner notes describing one nocturne as “staggering drunken with the odor of flowers.” Charles Rosen, Pianist, Polymath and Author, Dies at 85 2012-12-11T01:24:22Z But it’s easy to hear how his pioneering efforts in the nocturne genre — which feature long, singing melodies that unfold over left-hand accompaniment and a lack of traditional formal structure — influenced Chopin. Music Review: Celebrating an Irishman Who Preceded Chopin 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z In recordings, the complete nocturnes are usually presented in chronological order. Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z In the Night, by Robbins, is set to three Chopin nocturnes. Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:13Z Rust, blues and greens prevail here with results that seem like nocturnes. Suzan Frecon: ‘Oil Paintings and Sun’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Playing soprano saxophone, Mallinger floated phrases as if there were no backbeat to speak of, the gauzy quality of his tone aptly suited to Shorter's nocturne. Saxophonist Pat Mallinger gets a moment of glory 2011-03-06T15:54:00Z This 50-minute set of incendiary, often brutal works captures memories of the Vietnam War in a series of nightmarish nocturnes. Critic?s Notebook: The New and the Newer; Hold the Preconceptions 2011-08-09T22:58:14Z In a Chopin group of three nocturnes and four études Mr. Angelich was full of surprises. Music Review: Conceptually Challenging in Familiar Repertory 2011-03-06T22:46:11Z I’m including two pieces by Enescu, a chorale and a “carillon nocturne,” which is very interesting, especially considering it was written by someone who is not known for his pianistic production. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z But Louis Lortie offers a worthy addition with his elegant interpretations of the four ballades, the Opus 57 Berceuse, the Opus 60 Barcarolle and six nocturnes. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2012 2012-12-20T17:59:14Z And just as quickly, you were disarmed by the sensitivity and imagination Mr. Pollini brought to the two Opus 27 nocturnes that opened the program. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Honors Chopin Landmark at Carnegie 2010-04-19T21:51:00Z “It’s a kind of nocturne,” Mr. Thomas said, describing the work as belonging to the “more dark, hermetic place that his mind was in these last years.” Asking Whether Copland’s Abstruse Works are the Exception or the Rule 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z How did you prepare for this new album of the nocturnes? Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z The movements that follow are arboreal portraits in music: a puckish, dancing duet for the bassoon and a violin; a mysterious nocturne; curlicue phrases choked into fragments; and patient brooding. John Williams in the Concert Hall: An Introduction 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Mahler labeled the second and fourth movements each “Nachtmusik,” usually translated as nocturne, though Bernstein called it music of nightmares in his 1967 essay “Mahler: His Time Has Come.” Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z And in the master class, a young Thai girl played a nocturne of Francis Poulenc for me, with a rapturous tone. My Story: Growing Acceptance for the Transgendered 2013-02-04T04:45:25Z He reveled in writing sonorous ballades, dreamy nocturnes, bittersweet mazurkas and personal pieces. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Everything about her body language captures the lunar nocturne of this scene. Dance Review: At City Ballet, a New Work Looks to Ellington for ?That Swing? 2011-01-30T23:49:35Z Lortie prefaces each of the scherzos with a nocturne in a related key as well, providing moments of relieving calm between the cascading pyrotechnics, and ends the disc with the sonata. Chopin: Scherzos; Sonata No 2, etc 2010-07-01T21:35:00Z The mood is consistently poetic and atmospheric: a 21st-century nocturne in which tensions change. New York City Ballet’s Very 21st-Century Steps 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “Their nocturnes are so sad, and occasionally their stuff gets a little spooky,” he said. He Makes Economics Theories Wacky Enough for TikTok 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z “Métamorphoses nocturnes” is a taut and seething one-movement work from 1954, a repertory touchstone and as fine a music as any to put a young group to the test. Calidore String Quartet Comes to New York 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z I don’t play Chopin nocturnes to educate their ear but to annoy them, and they retaliate by playing artists I won’t name here. My Five Things: Wicked Novelist Gregory Maguire 2011-11-09T20:51:13Z Why do you play the nocturnes faster in concert than on your new recording? Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z But profundity is never sacrificed for virtuosity, as demonstrated in memorable interpretations of eight mazurkas, the Sonata No. 3 and two nocturnes. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z While Blanchard’s score moved comfortably between bars, college parties and fraught, tender nocturnes, “Fire” was fairly turgid as drama, its individual sequences clear but the broader conflicts driving its characters obscure. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Conor offered poised renditions of the lilting Nocturnes No. 5 in B flat, No. 6 in F and the lively No. 18 in E, “Le Midi,” a rondo masquerading as a nocturne. Music Review: Celebrating an Irishman Who Preceded Chopin 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z A small group of dancers around a piano brought into fresh and magical life the same Chopin nocturnes that had always been inseparable from the trappings of tutus, painted trees and moonlight. Peter Brook on A Midsummer Night's Dream: a cook and a concept 2013-04-15T14:28:03Z Inspired by a friend's memories of the far east, the Suite is a study in Orientalist sensuality, with a knock-out nocturne at its centre, orchestrated in a manner that prefigures Messiaen. Ernest Bloch: Suite for Viola and Orchestra; Suite Hébraïque; Baal Shem – review 2013-06-13T21:00:31Z But the intelligent engagement that initially set his playing apart from Mr. Lang’s gaudy efflorescence was in short supply during an opening set of five nocturnes; elastic phrasing was often thwarted by murky pedaling. Music Review: Yundi Plays Chopin at Carnegie Hall 2010-05-21T23:56:00Z But he was particularly fine when passions calm for a while and the two lovers sink into Wagner’s nocturne, longing to be eternally united in death. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Takes a Big Step Toward ‘Tristan’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z In the case of “Risky Business” the dreamy, wistfully descending nocturne “Love on a Real Train” helps bring out a strain of melancholy in the misadventures of the all-American teenager played by Tom Cruise. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z His complete Chopin recordings have been issued in a two-disc set, including the First Piano Concerto, the Third Sonata, the 14 waltzes, selected nocturnes and mazurkas, and an incomparable account of the deceptively complex Barcarolle. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z The exhibition anyway ought to be an incendiary nocturne of sensuality and symphonic emotion.· Cy Twombly's late works alongside Turner and Monet – the week in art 2012-06-15T11:47:02Z A nocturne, it was a very plain, almost stark painting, implicitly geometric despite the natural subject, and beautifully constructed. ArtsBeat: Critic's Notebook: Lessons in Looking 2012-03-06T20:52:15Z This dreamlike nocturne ends with his following her, apparently to rescue her from drowning, but then disappearing with her beneath the waves. At New York City Ballet, Works That Tell Stories and Don’t 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Sitting at his piano in his Sao Paulo penthouse, Martins reels off Frédéric Chopin’s nocturnes with aplomb. Brazilian piano legend plays again thanks to ‘magic’ gloves 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z “Fall River Boiler,” a black-and-white image that he photographed in 1978 and printed a decade or so later, is a nocturne of texture and tone: feathery asbestos, gloppy encrustations, circular black holes. When a Master Printer Picks Up the Camera 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Chopin's four scherzos, here interwoven with three nocturnes, demand a grasp of structure, especially the wild No 1 in B minor, which more experienced pianists struggle to convey. Benjamin Grosvenor: Chopin, Liszt, Ravel ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:06Z The difference between the film and its source is the difference between “night” and “nocturne.” Review: In ‘Manhattan Night,’ Adrien Brody Navigates an Urban Underbelly 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The second movement is an inert nocturne; in the third an intriguing idea, a duet passage for tuba and harp, dawdles into irrelevance. Review: Planets, Tubas and Febrile Strings With the New York Philharmonic 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z The ensemble backdrop is crystalline, misty sighs, while the solo cello line expands into melancholy arias without words; sometimes the tone is passionate, dark-hued nocturne, sometimes ethereal lullaby. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Nor did he compare her to Charles Laughton or create a nocturne called “This Marriage Is Dead.” Jamaica Kincaid Isn’t Writing About Her Life, She Says 2013-02-04T23:08:15Z Each of its four gentle and melodic movements is “a kind of nocturne,” says the composer, who was inspired by the sight of the night sky. Myriad Trio, in its Kennedy Center debut, is nearly impossible to not like 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z His slow-paced, lyrical nocturnes are ripe with emotive gestures and flights of fancy. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Chopin may have perfected the piano nocturne, but he didn’t invent it. CD reviews: Two piano recordings worth attention 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Chopin’s ethereal nocturnes, poetic ballades, audacious scherzos, aptly titled impromptus and lacy waltzes often sound like written-out improvisations. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z Only a handful of moodier pieces – “Waiting for a Sign,” the instrumental “Dead Nature,” the nightmarish jazz-spiked nocturne “Marshal Dear” – break the break-neck momentum. Album review: Savages. 'Silence Yourself' 2013-05-06T15:28:00Z With the exception of Chopin’s “Funeral March” Sonata, the works were preludes, études, nocturnes, scherzos: the kind of shorter, dazzlingly colorful, crowd-pleasing pieces that Horowitz, too, used to stuff his programs. Music Review: Lola Astanova in Horowitz Tribute at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-21T00:44:23Z Ms. Witkowski will infuse a selection of Chopin’s nocturnes and preludes with improvisations inspired by jazz and Brazilian rhythms. Spare Times for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In a nocturne evoking the bells of Geneva, he then turned each into an epic tolling. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z But far more present was the collective’s progeny: the milky repetitive vibraphone of Molly Joyce’s “Purity” and Ian Chang’s raucous electronic nocturne, streamed — with strobes flashing — from a darkened room, like a Brooklyn loft party. The Bang on a Can Marathon, Still Lovably Scruffy Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z The nocturnes oozed sensuality and regret, yet were also immaculate studies in orchestral clarity. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-04-26T21:30:00Z The experience is no less expansive than seeing the ocean or hearing a Chopin nocturne for the first time. Try New Fruit. The Weirder, the Better. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Image: HP Webcam aside, the new Spectre can come in either “nocturne blue with celestial blue accents” or “nightfall black with pale brass accents.” HP’s Spectre x360 16 uses AI to make you look glamorous on video calls 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z But he also fell under the spell of Whistler’s emphasis, in his “nocturnes” and “symphonies,” on design and abstract form, and his musical emphasis on mood. Perspective | A tour de force of eroticism — without any nudity Kentucky Fried Chicken reacted to the changed atmosphere last month by canceling a British commercial, set to a Chopin nocturne, that showed dozens of people eating chicken and licking their fingers. ‘A Seismic Shock’: Jittery Companies Pull Back on Ads During Pandemic 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z We climbed out of the car to take in the late spring nocturne. Shopping in Pyongyang, and Other Adventures in North Korean Capitalism 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Bright sunlight, generally; crisp shadow; the occasional moody nocturne. Dispatches From a Ruined Paradise 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “And then something will surface. I just wrote my first real classical piece, a nocturne for piano and orchestra. I hope I get it played here sometime.” Jimmy Webb at Carnegie Hall 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But he also fell under the spell of Whistler’s emphasis, in his “nocturnes” and “symphonies,” on design and abstract form, and his musical emphasis on mood. Perspective | A tour de force of eroticism — without any nudity In that section, Ms. Karasoulas said, she “wanted to trace an artistic shift from nocturnes that feature celestial light to nocturnes that are increasingly urban in character.” The City of Lights, When It Was First Lighted 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z But you are set in another part of their habitual world, a nocturne of ice crystals and cloud and wind and darkness. New York Above 800 Feet 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Chance events—injuries, infections, infatuations; the haunting trill of that particular nocturne—impinge on one twin and not on the other. The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z On his return to Warsaw Radio in 1945, having survived the utter destruction of the city and the Holocaust, he began by playing the same nocturne - a story immortalised Roman Polanski's film The Pianist. The mystery of Chopin's death 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z But in the larghetto of the F-minor concerto, in the nocturnes and preludes—not of course the big one in D minor—�tudes, valses, ah! there is then but one De Pachmann. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Pg 89 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? Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z He could hear Florence playing rather a cheerless nocturne by Chopin. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Both were listening so intently to the soft nocturne that Miss Flora was playing, that Lloyd's knock made them start with surprise. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z It was a nocturne in blue and silver, and if sound were wanted, the splashing at the bows and the deep rumble of the surf emphasized the softer harmonies of the night. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z Then, as the moon rose higher the vast sweep of wilderness and sky gathered depth of color and became a wonderful nocturne in blue and silver. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z Her mind was far off, and her fingers, left to themselves, stumbled through a disjointed chaos of melodies from nocturnes to tangos and back. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Symphonies and sonatas were the life-work of Beethoven; while Chopin had a particular fancy for nocturnes. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z I am a prayer and a praise, A sermon and a song; My leaf-chords thrill at the wind's will To nocturnes deep and strong; Or the sea's far lyric melodies Echo and prolong. A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart 2011-11-27T03:00:12.497Z The masterpieces of music, and even the fantas�as, r�veries, and nocturnes, which Maria played on the piano left her cold and incapable of understanding their worth. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z Susan plays a bit of a nocturne with ease and grace. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z He was not permitted to retire, and when he put the fiddle to his shoulder again she knew why he played the nocturne she had heard in the bush. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z It would have taken more than a Chopin nocturne to make any of our seasoned heroes do something that he did not wish to. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z She began with a nocturne by Chopin, in F major. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Between the varying pitch of their voices come 220 other nocturnes in monotones from creatures unknown to complete the gamut. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z A painting of action was to Pettie, vigorous and robust, as natural a fulfilment of his own spirit as was an exquisite dreamy nocturne to Whistler, the fragile man of nerves and sentiment. John Pettie, R.A., H.R.S.A. Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work 2011-08-16T02:00:44.287Z "In this Suite," I asked him with a start, "is there a fugue, a march, and a nocturne?" My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z She seated herself at the piano and began a nocturne of Chopin's; but the idea of playing when there was no admiring audience! A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z Professor Clausen relates that Whistler told him that his object in painting nocturnes was to try and exhibit the "mystery and beauty of the night." Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Both scientists used classical music: Chopin piano nocturnes or etudes in which the length and volume of notes were adjusted to varying degrees. When the Melody Takes a Detour, the Science Begins 2011-06-06T04:27:40Z It rarely happened that she received his good-night kiss until she had played a nocturne or an �tude for which he asked. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z She played "Make me no Gaudy Chaplet" and nocturnes by sundry composers; she sang "The Three Fishers." True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z Separately, the Levitin team found that children with autism essentially rated each nocturne rendition equally emotional, finding the original no more emotionally expressive than the mechanical version. To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle the Neurons 2011-04-18T17:42:29Z The love music is in nocturne form, and is chiefly a duet for solo violin and 'cello. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z After the cities of North Italy Rome has the effect of a severe choral by Handel after a nocturne by Chopin. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Mrs. Mitchell moved away to a distant window, carrying her embroidery frame and silks, and Eglah opened the piano and played softly two of Chopin's nocturnes. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z But his “nocturnes,” a form of music highly developed if not actually created by him, remain all but unrivalled for their tenderness and dreaminess of conception, combined with a continuous flow of beautiful melody. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Similar treatment of the sonatas, ballades, and nocturnes would surely be a different thing. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Monsieur Albert Perfection sits down to the piano, plays a nocturne of Chopin, an �tude of Thalberg, and a Liszt tarentella with blameless technical perfection, and without faltering a single time. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z "One of the Chopin nocturnes which I transposed for your sake?" asked he. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z Some of the music forms which he wrote are the nocturne, waltz, mazurka, impromptu, concerto, polonaise, etude. Chopin The Story of the Boy Who Made Beautiful Melodies 2011-01-22T03:00:15.747Z Rendering Chopin's nocturne no 7 Op27 in C# minor would achieve this distinction. The art of online conversation | MT Hughes 2010-03-26T13:00:00Z Liszt played three Chopin nocturnes and a scherzo of his own. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Within a few notes of a Chopin nocturne, he is once again that child for whom the world beyond Sugar Hill awaited. 2010-01-22T16:02:00Z After the first bar of the nocturne the princess had fallen asleep, at the last she had waked, and had retired, with the remark that she could hear much better in the adjoining room. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z The Embankment ... a nocturne of lamps and water ... and ... yes! that would be a new game! The Gay Adventure A Romance The moonlight was beginning to convert the dulness of twilight into a nocturne of soft and tempered beauty. The Tempering The first item on the programme was a nocturne rendered by the composer, a famous pianist who at the time was delighting all London. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Surely, that nocturne was meant to be heard as I heard it—in a garden at night. The New Gulliver and Other Stories She played Chopin, and the austerity of her method made the ballads and the nocturnes more dangerously sweet. Plashers Mead A Novel The lady called, and Paderewski, after pleasantly greeting her, sat before his piano and played a prelude, a nocturne of Chopin, and Songs without Words. Harper's Round Table, July 30, 1895 Then she turned slowly again towards Renfrew, and continued her nocturne as if it had never been broken off. Bye-Ways Morland had sterner work to do in the world now than to improvise nocturnes. The Head Girl at the Gables She stood quite still, listening until the piece came to an end, and then as the last notes of the38 beautiful nocturne died away, she raised her head and lightly touched the electric bell. The Children of the Top Floor Over at the piano Grace was playing with much tender feeling one of Chopin's delicious nocturnes; before the open fireplace, Carter, Brevoort and McVey were discussing the possibilities of a well-managed ranch. The Song of the Wolf In the so-called “Champagne Aria” in Don Giovanni there lies more “depth” than in many a funeral march or nocturne:—Depth of feeling also shows in not wasting it on subordinate or unimportant matters. Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music I would have played a nocturne beneath your window. Eyes Like the Sea Or again; which is a higher work of art, a nocturne by Chopin, or a sonata by Beethoven; an Essay by Macaulay, or a “Decline and Fall” by Gibbon? Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Hence we see that the shorter forms of music, the �tude, the nocturne, besides the national dances already alluded to, are chosen by Chopin in preference. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" You know, his nocturnes fill me with a sense of nothingness—the divine néant, nirvana, you call it. Melomaniacs I played like a machine for the first time in my life, I think, and during the interval the manager asked me why I had not given the nocturne that was down on the programme. Olive in Italy He stayed a moment to admire the nocturne and was glad that he had lived to see all this beauty. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Across the ranges came a warm, damp scent that promised rain, and the clouds once more parted bringing the tranquil magic of a silver-toned nocturne. The Roof Tree I don't know that you ever brought out that nocturne quite so well before. Otherwise Phyllis Merville started with a Chopin nocturne, but Hodson hurt the cat as it brushed against him, and the noise displeased the pianist. Melomaniacs A nocturne—yes; it was getting dark, and the sea was rising—that was the sound of the sea. Olive in Italy The nocturne was beautiful in its largeness and silence. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real The nocturne ended, she swung round on Meredith. Colorado Jim The painter's medium is just as symbolic as the notes of the musician's nocturne or the words of the poet's sonnet, equally inspired by the hour and place. The Enjoyment of Art He did not discover new forms; all he cared for was to mock the Jews with their majufes, and play sugar-water nocturnes. Melomaniacs “You sang that devil’s nocturne inimitably,” observed her stepfather, drily. Olive in Italy It is like a "nocturne" written by a musician who has wandered through all the cities of Europe with a company of beggar-players, playing masques of death to the occupants of all the cemeteries. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations 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. A Little Country Girl “No,” said Miss Torrance, who afterwards wondered whether it would have made a great difference if she had not chosen that nocturne. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter I mused, as Vibert, after some graceful swallow-like flights on the keyboard, finally played that most dolorously delicious of Chopin's nocturnes, the one in C sharp minor. Melomaniacs Before the end of the nocturne carriage bells are heard outside. The Light Shines in Darkness Musical terms, such as “pitch, key, note, tone, chord, modulation, nocturne, and symphony,” are frequently used in the description of color, serving by association to convey certain vague ideas. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma I think the record was a Grieg nocturne—something cool and quiet, with a touch of acutely sweet pain and melancholy. The Chamber of Life 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 Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations I could not appreciate their mental pleasures, any more than a savage could delight in a nocturne of Chopin. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Tónya goes to the piano and plays a nocturne by Chopin. The Light Shines in Darkness Cross-examination continued: "What was the subject of the nocturne in blue and silver belonging to Mr. Grahame?" The Gentle Art of Making Enemies She pulled a volume of Chopin from the stand, and began the twelfth nocturne. A harum-scarum schoolgirl Practically, he may be said to have invented the polonaise, the nocturne, and the ballad. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations But one day you drop in at a friend's house and from the drawing room come strains of your favorite Chopin nocturne. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players It was a nocturne after the heart of Whistler, and Jones, as he gazed at it, felt for the first time the magic of this wonderful half revealed city with its million yellow eyes. The Man Who Lost Himself "What has become of the nocturne in black and gold?" The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Schubert's 'Hedge Roses' for one, and that nocturne of your own for the other. A harum-scarum schoolgirl The little nocturne in E-flat, opus 9, is one which is now very generally played upon every sort of instrument capable of singing a soprano melody. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 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!" The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players In the romanza, syncopation and imitation are much 135 relied on, though the general atmosphere is that of a nocturne, a trio of dance-like manner breaking in. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The picture called the nocturne in blue and silver, was now produced in Court. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Valse, mazurka, and nocturne, prelude and polonaise Clamour and wander and wail on the opiate air, Piercing our hearts with echo of passionate days, Peopling a top front lodging with shapes of care. Nights in London These pieces are in effect nothing else than "nocturnes," quite after the manner of Chopin, only less elaborate in treatment and less extended. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Undoubtedly, the most popular of the nocturnes is the one in E flat, Op. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players It was well for Nell that she knew every note of the nocturne by heart, for the page of music swam before her eyes, and she could not see a note. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden A second nocturne in blue and silver was then produced. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Mazurka, polonaise, and nocturne wailed in the stuffy chamber; her little hands lit up the enchanted gloom of the place with bright thrills. Nights in London The originality of Chopin shows best, perhaps, in his polonaises, ballads, preludes, and nocturnes; but the two sonatas, while presenting marked differences from those of the older writers, are, nevertheless, tone-poems of strong originality. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations There are nocturnes of Chopin's composed on a larger scale than the Opus 37, No. 2, but to my taste there is none more beautiful. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players When the nocturne came to an end, and the applause which greeted it broke out, Lady Luce, still clapping her hands, rose and went toward Drake. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Let them examine the nocturne in blue and silver, said to represent Battersea Bridge. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies But Lilla was watching a man and woman who sat in a shadowy alcove, and who, as some one began to play a nocturne, let their fingers twine together. Sacrifice Then comes a softer and more capricious melody, but little more heroic than a nocturne. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations They are fresh and untrammeled in their development, and as full of sunlight as the nocturnes are of darkness. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players A propos of this, I recollect an incident the mention of which will, I fear, send a cold shudder through any worshipper of "Nubian" nocturnes and incomprehensible "arrangements." The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 Mr. Bowen: "Do you see any art quality in that nocturne, Mr. Jones?" The Gentle Art of Making Enemies As the twilight deepened and conversation began to flag, there came from the piano a few sweet chords, followed by one of Chopin's dreamy nocturnes. At the Time Appointed It begins with a lovely melody, like a nocturne. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations You can hear Paderewski interpret your favorite nocturne, but you can't go home to your own pianoforte and let your fingers conjure up memories of it on the keyboard. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players One morn when six months had swift glided away, Again at the instrument seated, Miranda a nocturne had just ceased to play, When old Thomas desired it repeated. The Princess of the School The nocturne in black and gold has not the merit of the other two pictures, and it would be impossible to call it a serious work of art. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies The customary nocturne by birds, beasts and insects began before long, and several times hyenas and jackals came to the bait, but no lions. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country The place of "middle piece" in this Fantasia Impromptu is filled by a slow melody which in effect is a nocturne—quite in the manner of the middle piece in the Impromptu in A-flat. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations From the interior of the house floated the soulful strains of a Chopin nocturne. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life At the first few bars of a Chopin nocturne Mr Macalister’s newspaper wavered, and fell to his knee. Big Game A Story for Girls The nocturne in black and gold is not a serious work to me. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Mrs. Julian Marshall, born at Rome, has produced several orchestral works, as well as several cantatas, an operetta, a nocturne for clarinet and orchestra, and a number of songs. Woman's Work in Music In all these cases it is to be observed that Chopin takes the implication of the term "nocturne" somewhat freely, often developing the idea with considerable force and dramatic spirit. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The lovely "nocturne" of the evening plain had passed into a Vision or Masque of Force that captured the mind. Marriage à la mode His cosmos bulged with ego of such density that he and his pastels and nocturnes were crowded together in it indistinguishably. White Ashes Why should not I call my works "symphonies," "arrangements," "harmonies," and "nocturnes"? The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Meanwhile her composition was not neglected; beginning by publishing three études,222 a tarantelle, and a nocturne for piano, she continued with sonatas, fugues, and songs. Woman's Work in Music It is a piece in nocturne style with a melodious voice coming in all sorts of forms, a little in the style of the well-known Schumann "Warum." The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations This nocturne is called a forerunner to the Chopin nocturnes. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Scriabine writes mazurkas, preludes, études, nocturnes and waltzes in his master's cool, polite, fastidious general manner. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers "J. M. Whistler is here again with his nocturnes." The Gentle Art of Making Enemies She played a nocturne of Chopin; and he rose and stood at the fireplace, with his hands folded behind his back. The Woman's Way The first one is in G minor, a sort of cheerful nocturne, with nice melody and good musicianship. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Ehlert speaks of the twilight that is beginning to steal over certain of the nocturnes, valses, and fantasias. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques 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. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Mr. Whistler confines himself to two small canvases of the nocturne kind. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies It's something of Chopin's, a nocturne, I think. The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run He is the Whistler nocturne that my Sorolla nature demands, and he eternally makes me hold out my hand to grasp—nothing. The Heart's Kingdom "Edward Karlovitch, play my favorite nocturne—Field's," cried the countess, from the adjoining room. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World But a nocturne by Whistler of mist on the Thames is either a masterpiece or it is nothing; it is either a nocturne or a nightmare of childish nonsense. The Victorian Age in Literature No less unique and original are the exquisite modulations into foreign keys which abound in the nocturnes, as, indeed, in all his works. Chopin and Other Musical Essays Outside, the fiddle was repeating again and again a nocturne that Helen particularly loved. The Place Beyond the Winds Say I let you, spite of all endeavor, Mar some nocturne by a single note; 78 Is there immortality of discord In your failure to preserve the rote? Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen He was one of his own nocturnes in which you can feel a vague presentiment of untimely death. The Loves of Great Composers At a word from the attendant I released the blind and shut out the unfamiliar nocturne. Leaves from a Field Note-Book No one has written melodies more soulful than those of the nocturne, opus 37, No. 2, the second ballad, the études, opus 10, No. 3; opus 25, No. 7, etc. Chopin and Other Musical Essays A mingling of tuberoses, narcissus, attar of roses, and ambergris he detected in the air—as triste as a morbid nocturne of Chopin. Visionaries And what nocturnes and serenades you must have sung! The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts He really gazed admiringly at the older woman, who made, under the glimmering shadows of the oaks, a charming nocturne of elderly womanhood. The Shoulders of Atlas A Novel Though the cool breeze refreshed his temples, the restlessness of his mind was only increased by the hush of nature's nocturne, through which the sound of the sea came like a drone. The Parts Men Play 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. Chopin and Other Musical Essays In many of his nocturnes Chopin is the adored sentimentalist of boarding-school misses. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art He is now distinctively remembered as the inventor of that beautiful form of musical writing, the nocturne. Great Violinists And Pianists In the valleys it was all a nocturne of dove grays and dreamlike softness. Destiny She was the blending of his life's melodies into a brief, tender nocturne of love that his heart would never hear again. The Parts Men Play I refer, especially, to the endings of his last two nocturnes and to the final bars of the mazurka, opus 59, No. 3. Chopin and Other Musical Essays The real Chopin is to be found in his nocturnes, mazurkas, and ballads, not in his sonatas. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development What nonsense has been talked about Millais’ landscapes, Whistler’s nocturnes, Swinburne poetry—all excellent enough in their way, and requiring to be praised according to their merits, with a reserve as to their faults. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses Will you allow her now to play Chopin's two nocturnes, Opus 48? Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances The musical interest centres in a charming duet in the opening scene, and a delicious instrumental nocturne. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. He adds that Chopin had just completed "a most graceful little nocturne," of which he remembered much, and was going to play it for his brother Paul. Chopin and Other Musical Essays Dickens was horrified by an early work of Millais; Ruskin was enraged by a nocturne of Whistler. Essays on Art The book abounds in nocturnes, arabesques, masquerades, bagatelles, rococo pastorals. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Soft pink and rose for love music, tender blues and shades of gray for nocturnes and night pieces are some of the affinities of tone and color. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Other young people joined this central group, and Nina at the piano played softly a dreamy nocturne which seemed a gentle accompaniment to the conversation. Randy and Her Friends In speaking of Chopin's melancholy character, the nocturnes are often referred to as illustrations of it. Chopin and Other Musical Essays He read himself back into the past and saw himself painting primitive nocturnes in a primitive Chelsea, happily undisturbed by primitive critics. Recent Developments in European Thought Besides his operas he also wrote many waltzes, nocturnes, studies, and other light works for the piano. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers How can one teach the interpretation of a Chopin nocturne, for instance, by merely talking about it. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers In the more tender pieces, such as the nocturnes of Field and of Chopin, he played with the utmost dreaminess. Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday The feminine side is chiefly embodied in the mazurkas and the nocturnes. Chopin and Other Musical Essays Not one of the trio looked up until the nocturne they were playing was done. The Twenty-Fourth of June It was an unrhymed song out of Saturnalia, it was the luminous, passionate nocturne of the streets. The Divine Fire The most amusing feature of it was the exhibition in court of some of the "nocturnes" and "arrangements" which were the subject of the suit. Whistler Stories One remembers that Ruskin denounced one of Whistler’s nocturnes as a pot of paint flung in the face of the British public. The Art of Letters Schumann, in a complimentary notice of Chopin's nocturnes, expresses his regrets that the composer should confine himself so strictly to the pianoforte, whereas he might have influenced the development of music in all its branches. Chopin and Other Musical Essays And he had begun a nocturne that amused him. Lady Connie This, however, is inconsistent with the definition of nocturne, mystérieux, for the gift in lieu of dowry would have nothing of mystery in it. Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850 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. Whistler Stories Whistler shocked Ruskin when he confessed to having painted a nocturne in two days, but with a lifetime experience in each stroke of the brush. Promenades of an Impressionist The nocturnes represent the dreamy side of Chopin's genius. Chopin and Other Musical Essays Clarice resumed her playing, but as she neared the end of the nocturne, Drake perceived that there was a growing change, a declension, in her style. The Philanderers Seating herself at the piano, the good woman executed a Chopin nocturne with precision. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations She became silent at that, and for a time the low sweet harmonies of the nocturne Penelope was playing filled the gap. The Grafters She herself took to playing the less difficult of the Chopin nocturnes with a languorous over-accentuation of their softness which she was careful to keep from the ears of old Reinhardt. The Bent Twig I am convinced that no one who really appreciates the poetic beauty of a Schubert song or a Chopin nocturne can read these columns of our newspapers without feelings of utter disgust. Chopin and Other Musical Essays She laughed and began to play one of Chopin's nocturnes. The Philanderers Delighted, she invited him in and he sat down and played the nocturne as only Paderewski can, afterward spending an hour in correcting her mistakes. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations The clouds have broken and the heavens burn To hollow highways, paved with gravelled light The churning of the waves about the stern Rises to one voluminous nocturne, ... This Side of Paradise But one evening he came in, unheard, listened to her performance of the B-flat minor nocturne with a frown, and pulled her away from the piano before she had finished. The Bent Twig The white lock, the single eyeglass, the remarkable hat—these were much dearer to him than any nocturnes or arrangements that he ever threw off. Heretics For instance: if, after dinner, you hear a dreamy waltz or a sleepy nocturne, you may know that all is well. Miss Billy's Decision Pausing to listen he heard the young woman trying to play one of Chopin's nocturnes, and not succeeding very well. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations At the piano Alice slipped from the chords into the nocturne. Miss Billy — Married Halfdan acknowledged the compliment by a bow and a blush, and repeated the latter part of the nocturne according to Edith's request. Tales from Two Hemispheres He could throw off the nocturnes; for some mysterious reason he could not throw off the hat. Heretics I glanced from the window at the nocturne in silver and green which lay beneath me. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu He crossed Trafalgar Square, a nocturne in yellow and black—lights reflected yellow in pavements shining dark with wet—and by and by found himself in Pall Mall. The Yellow Streak Even at the piano by the window, Alice had barely been able to see clearly enough to read the notes of her nocturne. Miss Billy — Married Mother and daughter once more telegraphed wondering looks at each other, while Halfdan plunged into the impetuous movements of the minor nocturne, which he played to the end with ever-increasing fervor and animation. Tales from Two Hemispheres And under his phenomenal fingers, a haunting, tender, world-sorrow, full of questionings—a dark mystery of moonless, starlit nature—exhales itself in nocturnes, in impromptus, in preludes—in mere waltzes and mazourkas even! Peter Ibbetson Sophia's cheeks grew white, but she did not turn to me: she played the nocturne through to the end, got up, and closed the piano. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Of less dramatic significance, but of equal esthetic value, is the nocturne known as "the Cremorne lights". Modern Painting There are people who pass by a nocturne by Whistler, a misty twilight by Corot, and who whisper solemnly before a Noel Paton as if they were in a Cathedral. Imaginations and Reveries We have now in Brangäne's watch-song, and the instrumental nocturne that accompanies it, reached the highest point of the musical expression, not of the Tristan drama alone, but of all music since Palestrina. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama This nocturne of silver and gray and blue at once soothed and intoxicated his imagination. The Call of the Cumberlands The Count entered with Madame Darbois, whom her husband had just presented to her, and they stopped silent to listen to Mendelssohn's beautiful nocturne, "Song of a Summer Night." The Idol of Paris But now even Mr. Jones, R.A., would not venture to repeat the opinion he expressed about one of the most beautiful of the nocturnes. Modern Painting But however attended, visited, caressed, Chopin died at the threshold of his prime, his life, lighted at most with a little feverish twinkling of stars, one nocturne. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 The duet ends with a reminiscence of the nocturne, Brangäne's voice entering with beautiful effect warning the lovers in the midst of their rhapsody. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama As soon as she had finished the nocturne, a sad, low sweet strain, she came back to the parlor. Saxe Holm's Stories Mildred sat some time leaning out of the window, then opening her piano, for the first time since her father's death, she sat down and played a nocturne by Mendelssohn. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 The office for the dead received this name from the antiphon with which the first nocturne in the mattens commenced, taken from Psalm v. The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 In the middle of a nocturne of Chopin's the door was opened, and a young man was shown into the room. The Governors Then softly it was dispelled, as through it there stole the tender, passionate-sweet harmonies of a Chopin nocturne. The Bars of Iron She was playing the closing bars of a nocturne. The Sowers Compare, for example, the effect of a Whistler nocturne with a Monet landscape. The Principles of Aesthetics Whistler has painted fireworks—I mean literally—in his blue and silver nocturne of old Battersea Bridge. Without Prejudice By an odd freak of fancy the flowers seemed an embodied strain from Chopin's nocturne that she had played, and the different shades of color the rising and falling of the melody. A Day of Fate The noble ladies were as affable as if we had been old acquaintances...Chopin played first a number of nocturnes and studies, and was admired and petted like a favourite. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete The noble ladies were as affable as if we had been old acquaintances…Chopin played first a number of nocturnes and studies, and was admired and petted like a favourite. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2 In his nocturnes there is a glimmering as of distant stars. Chopin : the Man and His Music To his beautiful Jackson Street palace the city's best people should come, and sometimes—for a favoured few—he would play his rippling etudes and nocturnes, his mazurkas and polonaises. The Story of Julia Page "Would you not like to hear your favorite nocturne again?" she asked, with a friendly smile. A Day of Fate On a distant hillside cattle browsed, and sheep wandered; and the drowsy tinkle of bells, as the herd wended homeward, seemed a nocturne of rest, for the closing day. At the Mercy of Tiberius Still, the barcarolle is one of the most important of Chopin's compositions in the nocturne- style. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2 The ineluctable fact remains that this is the noblest nocturne of them all. Chopin : the Man and His Music Go back and play the nocturne over again. The Picture of Dorian Gray I can see you playing Chopin's nocturne as distinctly as I see you now. A Day of Fate I look upon these visions often as the effects of pollutio nocturne. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 "Won't you give us a little Chopin, a nocturne or two, or a bit of Grieg?" The Major His choice was three manuscripts of Chopin's, one of them being this nocturne. Chopin : the Man and His Music The fantastic melodies of wandering gypsy songs went throbbing through the room; rollicking gavots, Hungarian dances, low and slumbrous nocturnes. The Puppet Crown "Mr. Dimmler, please play my favorite nocturne by Field," came the old countess' voice from the drawing room. War and Peace That is as perfect, in its dim and delicate beauty, as any of his painted 'nocturnes.' Yet Again Their houses are full of beautiful pictures, they rave about 'nocturnes' and 'symphonies,' their shelves are packed with first editions. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow It was the E flat nocturne that unloosed Rellstab's critical wrath in the "Iris." Chopin : the Man and His Music The silk hat of Mr. Whistler is a real nocturne, his linen a symphony en blanc majeur. The Works of Max Beerbohm And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain The night and moonshine; music which we seize To body forth our vacuity." Poems I checked my step, hoping, and in a minute or two the musician began to play that nocturne of Chopin which I love best—I don’t know how to name it. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft And I then: "Some one frames upon the keys That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain The night and moonshine; music which we seize To body forth our own vacuity." Prufrock and Other Observations The two nocturnes differ from his earlier ones chiefly through greater simplicity of decoration and more quiet grace. Chopin : the Man and His Music That evening she sang and played to him for a long time, exclaiming now and then: "We want a man's voice for this nocturne." Vendetta The Barcarolle is a nocturne painted on a large canvas, with larger brushes. Chopin : the Man and His Music The nocturnes—including the Berceuse and Barcarolle—should seldom be played in public and not the public of a large hall. Chopin : the Man and His Music Lenz got the music, but it did not please him—it seemed to him a long movement in the nocturne style, a Babel of figuration on a lightly laid foundation. Chopin : the Man and His Music The middle part of the second—D flat, molto piu lento—however, is much finer; in it we meet again, as we did in some other nocturnes, with soothing, simple chord progressions. Chopin : the Man and His Music She opened the piano and sang, played charming nocturnes and scherzos with a grace and sentiment which displayed a perfect freedom of mind, thus triumphing over her father, whose darkling face showed no softening. Vendetta 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. Chopin : the Man and His Music Here we find a Chopin fuller fledged than in the nocturnes and variations, and probably because of the form. Chopin : the Man and His Music Often heard in the concert room, this nocturne gives us a surfeit of sixths and thirds of elaborate ornamentation and monotone of mood. Chopin : the Man and His Music 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. Chopin : the Man and His Music The nocturne that follows in A flat is a reversion to the Field type, the opening recalling that master's B flat Nocturne. Chopin : the Man and His Music It is a nice nocturne, neat in its sorrow, yet not epoch-making. Chopin : the Man and His Music The recently discovered nocturne in C sharp minor is hardly a treasure trove. Chopin : the Man and His Music There is unhealthy power in this nocturne, which is seldom interpreted with sinister subtlety. Chopin : the Man and His Music Opus 55, two nocturnes in F minor and E flat major, need not detain us long. Chopin : the Man and His Music A delicately managed allusion is made by the horns to the second theme of the nocturne in G. There are even five faint taps of the triangle, and the idyllic atmosphere is never disturbed. Chopin : the Man and His Music There are pearls and diamonds in the jewelled collection of nocturnes, many are dolorous, few dramatic, and others are sweetly insane and songful. Chopin : the Man and His Music Remember, this study is a nocturne, and even the accepted metronomic markings in most editions, 76 to the quarter, are not too slow; they might even be slower. Chopin : the Man and His Music Willeby finds a resemblance to the theme of the first nocturne. Chopin : the Man and His Music Is this the nocturne of which Tausig spoke to his pupil Joseffy as belonging to the Master's "best period," or did he refer to the one in E minor? Chopin : the Man and His Music It is superior in content and execution to most of the nocturnes. Chopin : the Man and His Music However, there are a few noble nocturnes; and methods of performance may have much to answer for the sentimentalizing of some others. Chopin : the Man and His Music The E flat nocturne is graceful, shallow of content, but if it is played with purity of touch and freedom from sentimentality it is not nearly so banal as it usually seems. Chopin : the Man and His Music Some of them appear like briefly sketched mood pictures related to the nocturne style, and offer no technical hindrance even to the less advanced player. Chopin : the Man and His Music The valses are the most objective of the Chopin works, and in few of them is there more than a hint of the sullen, Sargasson seas of the nocturnes and scherzi. Chopin : the Man and His Music Chopin, seldom exuberantly cheerful, is morbidly sad and complaining in many of the nocturnes. Chopin : the Man and His Music The poetic side of men of genius is feminine, and in Chopin the feminine note was over emphasized—at times it was almost hysterical—particularly in these nocturnes. Chopin : the Man and His Music In the nocturnes the shroud is not far away. Chopin : the Man and His Music One of the most elegiac of his nocturnes is the first in B flat minor. Chopin : the Man and His Music The third nocturne of the three is in G minor, and contains some fine, picturesque writing. Chopin : the Man and His Music This completes the nocturne list, but following Niecks' system of formal grouping I include the Berceuse and Barcarolle as full fledged specimens of nocturnes. Chopin : the Man and His Music Her name is familiar to Chopin students, for the two nocturnes, opus 55, are dedicated to her. Chopin : the Man and His Music A dark, doleful nocturne is No. 6, in E flat minor. Chopin : the Man and His Music So much has been written, so much that is false, perverted sentimentalism and unmitigated cant about the nocturnes, that the wonder is the real Chopin lover has not rebelled. Chopin : the Man and His Music This nocturne contains in solution all that Chopin developed later in a nocturne of the same key. Chopin : the Man and His Music |
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