nocturne means A work in a genre of piano music of moderate tempo with a highly-decorated, improvisatory melody. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.
Why this word is great
NOCTURNE — [Noun] A musical composition, typically for piano, of a dreamy or pensive character, often evocative of the night. Borrowed from French nocturne (literally "nocturnal"), from Latin nocturnus ("of or belonging to the night"). Unlike a serenade—an outward-facing courtship performed in the evening air—or an étude—a disciplined study in technique—a nocturne is an interior soliloquy, a private communion between instrument and atmosphere. It is the warm, resonant weight of a low note held in a still room, the solitary spill of lamplight on polished ebony, and the velvet texture of a minor-key melody condensing from the air—a formal articulation of that quiet, unshareable space between midnight and dawn.
noun
- A work in a genre of piano music of moderate tempo with a highly-decorated, improvisatory melody.““My tastes,” he said, still smiling, “incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.” And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: “I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I’d rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don’t like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…].””
- A work of art relating or dedicated to the night.“He [James Abbott McNeill Whistler] was then asked for his definition of a Nocturne: “I have perhaps, meant rather to indicate an artistic interest alone in the work, divesting the picture from any outside sort of interest which might have been otherwise attached to it. It is an arrangement of line, form, and colour first, and I make use of any incident of it which shall bring about a symmetrical r”