Talk About Love 1997 a barcarolle, musically speaking. From Wordnik.com. [It's too early for any color on the redbuds of Madison, Wisconsin.] Reference
Ivan Gregoriev, Monsieur Rubinstein has brought us a new manuscript -- a barcarolle, you said, Anton?. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
"You have just been listening to the barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann on gramophone records," the announcer rasped. From Wordnik.com. [The War with the Newts] Reference
Marina Poplavskaya's Amelia sounded out of sorts in her wistful Act I aria, "Come in quest'ora", with the sound of the sea rippling its barcarolle in the woodwind. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival] Reference
"Your Highness, it was not my barcarolle you heard, but a clever bit of improvisation on my theme -- my own development having proved, no doubt, too much for Monsieur Gregoriev's technique.". From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
Monsieur Leon sang a barcarolle, and Madame Bovary, senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally, M. Bovary, senior, insisted on having the child brought down, and began baptizing it with a glass of champagne that he poured over its head. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
And Molly laughs lightly, and bursts into a barcarolle that utterly precludes the idea of any deep feeling; after which she gives them her own "Molly Bawn," and then, shutting down the piano, declares she is tired, and that evidently John doesn't appreciate her, and so she will sing no more. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Then came a string of ballads; Madame Boche's barcarolle was all about. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
Die Loreley becomes a transparent barcarolle; and all of the music by Anton. From Wordnik.com. [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference
But no sooner had Natasha finished her barcarolle than reality again presented itself. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Herein lies the idea of the barcarolle, the ebb and flow, the undulation of each measure. From Wordnik.com. [Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers] Reference
Sonya was sitting at the clavichord, playing the prelude to Denisov's favorite barcarolle. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Still, the barcarolle is one of the most important of Chopin's compositions in the nocturne - style. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Lenz, who did not know the barcarolle, thereupon went to a music-shop and read it through attentively. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
The singing society then sang a barcarolle, the words of the first line being, "Of the sea, our yacht is the pride.". From Wordnik.com. [Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life] Reference
Monsieur Léon sang a barcarolle, and Madame Bovary, senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life] Reference
The barcarolle for mixed chorus and accompaniment on the piano for four hands obtains a wealth of color, enhanced by the constant division of the voices. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
It is full of lovely melody (the barcarolle of the second act will always exert a potent and lovely influence) fluent from beginning to end, and rich in dramatic characterization. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
The idea of the first page of this barcarolle is one of utter quietness, colorlessness; one is alone on the water; the evening is quiet and still; not a sound breaks the hushed silence. From Wordnik.com. [Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers] Reference
The middle part again consists of a very beautiful digression, something like a cradle song, or a barcarolle, -- a gentle, peaceful, rocking motion, -- and then again the principal subject returns. From Wordnik.com. [The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations] Reference
At the bottom of the first flight Camillo bid her good-bye and ran down the stairs that led to the street, while the card-reader, rejoicing in her large fee, turned back to the garret, humming a barcarolle. From Wordnik.com. [Brazilian Tales] Reference
M.nsieur Leon sang a barcarolle, and M.dame Bovary, senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally, M. Bovary, senior, insisted on having the child brought down, and began baptizing it with a glass of champagne that he poured over its head. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
Whistler had sought for in his Nocturnes, and that Steer had nearly caught in that picture of children paddling, that dim, optimistic blue that allures and puts the world behind one, the dream of the opium-eater, the phrase of the syrens in "Tannhäuser," the phrase which begins like a barcarolle; but the accompaniment tears underneath until we thrill with expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of My Dead Life] Reference
And now let us hear what remarks Tausig made with regard to the barcarolle: ”. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
The form of the barcarolle is that of most of Chopin's nocturnes ” consisting of three sections, of which the third is a modified repetition of the first ” only everything is on a larger scale, and more worked out. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
Note that the form of the piece is a barcarolle. From Wordnik.com. [Great unknown musicians.] Reference
Together with Graham, Kunde delivers what is likely the most sublime performance ever of the third-act love-duet, in slow barcarolle rhythm, ". From Wordnik.com. [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference
Denisov’s favorite barcarolle. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Among her other works, all for piano, are waltzes, fantasies, caprices, études, a ballade, a scherzo, a reverie and barcarolle, and a song without words. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
The undulating accompaniment, the scintillation of the treble, suggests the gliding, gently rocking motion of the vessel and the phosphorescence in its wake; while the second theme of the nocturne would, even without any suggestion from the passage in George Sand's diary, be taken for a barcarolle, a reverie sung at night, now rising, now dying away, but with the pulse of a musical poet throbbing through every note -- the most beautiful melody, I think, Chopin ever wrote. From Wordnik.com. [The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players] Reference
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