berceuse

• “Lullabies written by established classical composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is French for lullaby, or cradle song.”

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• “Amsterdam Art "Kiefer & Rembrandt" displays "La berceuse for Van Gogh," an artwork created by the German artist Anselm Kiefer, inspired by Rembrandt's "The Night Watch," alongside photographs of Kiefer by Anton Corbijn.”

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• “Now, with the blunderbuss business behind him, he turned his mind to several other unusual occurrences in the past few hours, not the least of which was why he had arrived back at the Bijou Theater humming a Chopin berceuse.”

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• “Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino.”

  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

• “He has written for strings a berceuse and a scherzino, which have been played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and certain part songs, as well as a chorus for female voices and string orchestra, have been sung in London.”

  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

• “Among his works, besides piano pieces and songs, are: "A May Song," for women's chorus and piano; six pieces for violin and piano; "Harold," a ballad for male chorus, barytone solo, and orchestra; "Were It Not For Love," composed for male chorus; several sets of male choruses; a motet for mixed chorus a cappella; a berceuse for string orchestra, an introduction and rondo for violin and orchestra; and a "Marche Nuptiale," for grand orchestra.”

  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

• “Doubtless she knew it too, as she sat there sewing on the frail garment which lay across her knee and singing blithely under her breath some air with cadence like a berceuse.”

  Athalie

• “Old as were the words, the melody was older -- so old and quaint and sweet that it seemed a berceuse fashioned to soothe the drowsing centuries, lest the memories of ancient wrongs awake and rouse the very dead from their Gothic tombs.”

  The Maids of Paradise

• “The masterpieces of Chopin consist of mazurkas, polonaises, waltzes, etudes, preludes, nocturnes (with which we will class the berceuse and barcarole), scherzos and impromptus, and ballades.”

  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician

• “I found him seated in a _berceuse_ on the veranda.”

  Two Years in the French West Indies

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