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A piece of music that pretends it's thinking about the moon but is actually thinking about someone.
means A nocturne is a piece of music, usually for piano, inspired by or evocative of the night.
from From French nocturne, 'nocturnal,' from Latin nocturnus, 'of the night,' from nox, 'night' — the same root behind 'equinox' and 'nocturnal.' The term entered music in the early 1800s for dreamy, night-themed piano pieces, and became indelibly linked with Chopin, whose nocturnes turned the form into a byword for moonlit melancholy.
- origin
- named after the night, invented to sound like it
- chopin
- wrote 21, made moonlight sound heartbroken
- mood
- rubato-heavy, tempo bends like it's sighing
- form
- no fixed structure, just melody over dreamy accompaniment