etude

• What was likely, even at the hands of Goldberg, just another etude was now animated, extruded in all dimensions, until it became about how music exists, how it inhabits us, and how we, as seers and explorers in this forest of imbrication, learn to discover the unending levels and layers of our own, variationed selves. —  MFSF,January2005
• On the other hand, accompaniment by an etude or a cacophony of voices can become as significant for work as the perceptible silence of the night. —  doggdot.us
• I also looked in the MGG (The German equivalent of Grove's), which stated simply that the concert etude was "minted" (prägen) with the publication of Chopin's op. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• What eventually came of the effort however was a half-hour long masterful set of variations, of which some were labelled "etude" and others merely "variation." —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• An etude (French: étude, "study") is a form of musical composition originally intended to aid or improve the technique of the player. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]

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