nocturne

Example Sentences

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She plays a nocturne of some kind, echoing, transparent melodies.

From Slate • Oct. 29, 2022

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.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2021

“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.”

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

In a nocturne evoking the bells of Geneva, he then turned each into an epic tolling.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2016

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.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson