nokturn

noc·​turne ˈnäk-ˌtərn. : a work of art dealing with evening or night. especially : a dreamy pensive composition for the piano compare aubade sense 3.

by the night Nocturnes were brief piano works that were inspired by the night. It was Chopin who brought them to their Romantic fruition as a single-movement character piece for the piano. When it was transcribed for other instruments, the violinists brought nocturnes to their romantic highlight.

A nocturne is a musical composition that reflects the moods and feelings of night time. Although the name nocturne comes from the French word for “nocturnal,” the origins of the term in music were first used in Italy in the 18th century.

We cannot really call the Nocturne a music style or even a specific form of music. A Nocturne could be defined as a n emotional or intimate moment between the artist and his audience. We could describe it as a single-movement, usually written for solo piano.

The nocturne opens with a legato melody, mostly played piano (quietly), containing graceful upward leaps which becomes increasingly wide as the line unfolds. This melody is heard again three times during the piece. With each repetition, it is varied by ever more elaborate decorative tones and trills.

How to use nocturne in a sentence. The lovely "nocturne" of the evening plain had passed into a Vision or Masque of Force that captured the mind.

classical music One of the greatest innovations made by Chopin to the nocturne was his use of a more freely flowing rhythm, a technique based on the classical music style. Also, Chopin further developed the structure of the nocturne, taking inspiration from the Italian and French opera arias, as well as the sonata form.

Nocturnes are often poems of sleeplessness, the cry of the solitary and bereft ensouled in poetic form (Rubén Dario's “Nocturne,” which begins “You who have sounded the heart of the night,” 1905; Federico García Lorca's “Sleepless Night [Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne],” 1929; Marina Tsvetaeva's “Insomnia,” 1923).

A nocturne is a piece of dreamy piano music. A particularly lovely, well-played nocturne might bring tears to your eyes.

An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed works of fiction.

Even though the melody in a nocturne is played on piano, it often sounds like singing. Arpeggiated chords in the lower register. This means the notes underneath the melody smoothly roll up and down. A calm, peaceful feeling.”

They are typified by a tuneful and ornamented melody, with a left-hand accompaniment based on flat or broken chords. This tunefulness and the rich and refined ornamentation point to the vocal character of the melodic line, bringing to mind the bel canto Italian operatic style (Chopin was a great admirer of Bellini).