Exact Match:
- nocturne
- a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano)
Synonyms:
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- composition,
- descant,
- electronic music,
- etude,
- exercise,
- harmonization,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- piece,
- production,
- program music,
- ricercar,
- score,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- theme and variations,
- trio,
- variation,
- work
Related Words:
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- composition,
- descant,
- electronic music,
- etude,
- exercise,
- harmonization,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- nocturne,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- piece,
- production,
- program music,
- ricercar,
- score,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- trio,
- variation,
- work
- chamber music
collapse - serious music performed by a small group of musicians related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- chamber orchestra,
- composition,
- descant,
- electronic music,
- etude,
- exercise,
- harmonization,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- nocturne,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- piece,
- production,
- program music,
- ricercar,
- score,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- theme and variations,
- trio,
- variation,
- work
- sonata
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- a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- composition,
- descant,
- electronic music,
- etude,
- exercise,
- harmonization,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- nocturne,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- piece,
- production,
- program music,
- ricercar,
- score,
- sonatina,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- theme and variations,
- trio,
- variation,
- work
- orchestration
collapse
- the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments
- an arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effect; "the skillful orchestration of his political campaign"
- an arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or band related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- composition,
- descant,
- electronic music,
- etude,
- exercise,
- harmonization,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- instrumentation,
- intonation,
- invention,
- modulation,
- nocturne,
- opus,
- phrasing,
- piece,
- preparation,
- production,
- program music,
- resolution,
- ricercar,
- score,
- setting,
- solution,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- suspension,
- theme and variations,
- tone painting,
- transcription,
- trio,
- variation,
- work
- harmonization
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- singing in harmony
- a piece of harmonized music related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- accommodation,
- adaptation,
- adjustment,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- assimilation,
- attunement,
- balancing,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- charting,
- coaptation,
- codification,
- composition,
- coordination,
- descant,
- electronic music,
- equalization,
- etude,
- evening,
- exercise,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- instrumentation,
- integration,
- intonation,
- invention,
- methodization,
- modulation,
- nocturne,
- normalization,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- ordination,
- organization,
- phrasing,
- piece,
- planning,
- preparation,
- production,
- program music,
- rationalization,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- regularization,
- regulation,
- resolution,
- ricercar,
- routinization,
- score,
- setting,
- solution,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- squaring,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- suspension,
- symmetrization,
- synchronization,
- systematization,
- theme and variations,
- timing,
- tone painting,
- transcription,
- trio,
- variation,
- work
- etude
collapse
- a short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- article,
- causerie,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- composition,
- descant,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- electronic music,
- essay,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exercise,
- exposition,
- feature,
- first approach,
- harmonization,
- homily,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- introductory study,
- invention,
- lucubration,
- memoir,
- monograph,
- morceau,
- nocturne,
- note,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- outline,
- pandect,
- paper,
- paragraph,
- piece,
- preliminary study,
- production,
- program music,
- prolegomenon,
- research paper,
- ricercar,
- score,
- screed,
- sketch,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- special article,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- survey,
- term paper,
- theme,
- theme and variations,
- thesis,
- tract,
- tractate,
- treatise,
- treatment,
- trio,
- variation,
- work
- string quartet
collapse
- an instrumental quartet with 2 violins and a viola and a cello related words >
- German band,
- Nachtmusik,
- Philharmonic,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- band,
- big band,
- brass,
- brass band,
- brass choir,
- brass quintet,
- brass section,
- brasses,
- callithumpian band,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- combo,
- composition,
- concert band,
- descant,
- desks,
- dixieland band,
- electronic music,
- ensemble,
- etude,
- exercise,
- gamelan orchestra,
- group,
- harmonization,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- jazz band,
- jug band,
- military band,
- nocturne,
- opus,
- orchestra,
- orchestration,
- piece,
- production,
- program music,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- ragtime band,
- ricercar,
- rock-and-roll group,
- score,
- sextet,
- skiffle band,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- steel band,
- street band,
- string band,
- string choir,
- string orchestra,
- strings,
- study,
- swing band,
- symphony,
- symphony orchestra,
- theme and variations,
- trio,
- variation,
- waits,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind quartet,
- woodwinds,
- work
- aleatory
collapse
- dependent on chance; "the aleatory element in life" related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- accidental,
- adaptation,
- adventitious,
- adventurous,
- air varie,
- aleatoric,
- aleatory music,
- amorphous,
- arrangement,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- casual,
- causeless,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- circumstantial,
- composition,
- conditional,
- confused,
- contingent,
- descant,
- destinal,
- dicey,
- disordered,
- electronic music,
- etude,
- exercise,
- fatal,
- fatidic,
- fluky,
- foggy,
- fortuitous,
- full of risk,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- harmonization,
- hazardous,
- hazy,
- hit-or-miss,
- iffy,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incidental,
- incidental music,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- inessential,
- inexact,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- lax,
- loose,
- nocturne,
- nonessential,
- nonspecific,
- obscure,
- occasional,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- orderless,
- piece,
- production,
- program music,
- provisional,
- random,
- ricercar,
- riskful,
- risky,
- score,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shapeless,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- speculative,
- stochastic,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- sweeping,
- theme and variations,
- trio,
- uncaused,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unessential,
- unexpected,
- unforeseeable,
- unforeseen,
- unlooked-for,
- unplain,
- unpredictable,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- variation,
- veiled,
- venturesome,
- venturous,
- wildcat,
- work
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- article,
- artifact,
- autograph,
- best seller,
- book,
- bound book,
- brainchild,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- child,
- classic,
- coinage,
- coloring book,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- concoction,
- copy,
- creation,
- creature,
- crowning achievement,
- definitive work,
- descant,
- distillation,
- document,
- draft,
- edited version,
- effect,
- electronic music,
- end product,
- engrossment,
- essay,
- essence,
- etude,
- exercise,
- extract,
- fair copy,
- fiction,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- flimsy,
- folio,
- fruit,
- great work,
- handiwork,
- hardback,
- harmonization,
- holograph,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- issue,
- juvenile,
- juvenile book,
- letter,
- limp-cover book,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- lucubration,
- magnum opus,
- manufacture,
- manuscript,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- matter,
- mintage,
- new mintage,
- nocturne,
- nonbook,
- nonfiction,
- notebook,
- novel,
- oeuvre,
- offspring,
- opera,
- opuscule,
- opusculum,
- orchestration,
- original,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- paper,
- paperback,
- parchment,
- penscript,
- picture book,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- play,
- playbook,
- pocket book,
- poem,
- prayer book,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- product,
- production,
- program music,
- psalmbook,
- psalter,
- publication,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- result,
- ricercar,
- score,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- serial,
- sketchbook,
- soft-cover,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- songbook,
- standard work,
- storybook,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- the written word,
- theme and variations,
- title,
- tome,
- trade book,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- trio,
- typescript,
- variation,
- version,
- volume,
- work,
- writing
- adaptation
collapse
- (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
- a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form; "the play is an adaptation of a short novel"
- the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- about-face,
- absolute music,
- accommodation,
- accord,
- accordance,
- acquiescence,
- adaption,
- adjusting,
- adjustment,
- agreement,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- alignment,
- alteration,
- amelioration,
- apostasy,
- arrangement,
- assimilation,
- attunement,
- bearings,
- betterment,
- biological evolution,
- break,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- change,
- change of heart,
- changeableness,
- coaptation,
- compliance,
- composition,
- conditioning,
- conformance,
- conformation other-direction,
- conformity,
- congruity,
- consistency,
- constructive change,
- continuity,
- conventionality,
- conversion,
- coordination,
- correspondence,
- defection,
- degeneration,
- degenerative change,
- descant,
- deterioration,
- deviation,
- difference,
- discontinuity,
- disorientation,
- divergence,
- diversification,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- electronic music,
- enablement,
- equipment,
- etude,
- exercise,
- fit,
- fitting,
- flexibility,
- flip-flop,
- furnishing,
- genesis,
- gradual change,
- harmonization,
- harmony,
- horotely,
- improvement,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- instrumentation,
- integration,
- intonation,
- invention,
- keeping,
- line,
- malleability,
- melioration,
- mitigation,
- modification,
- modifying,
- modulation,
- natural selection,
- nocturne,
- obedience,
- observance,
- ontogenesis,
- ontogeny,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- orientation,
- orthodoxy,
- overthrow,
- phrasing,
- phylogenesis,
- phylogeny,
- physiogenesis,
- physiogeny,
- piece,
- pliancy,
- preparation,
- production,
- program music,
- qualification,
- radical change,
- re-creation,
- realignment,
- reconcilement,
- reconciliation,
- redesign,
- reform,
- reformation,
- regulation,
- remaking,
- renewal,
- reshaping,
- resolution,
- restructuring,
- reversal,
- revival,
- revivification,
- revolution,
- ricercar,
- score,
- setting,
- shift,
- solution,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- squaring,
- strictness,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- sudden change,
- suiting,
- suspension,
- switch,
- synchronization,
- tachytely,
- theme and variations,
- timing,
- tone painting,
- total change,
- traditionalism,
- transcription,
- transition,
- trio,
- tuning,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- uniformity,
- upheaval,
- variation,
- variety,
- violent change,
- work,
- worsening
- invention
collapse
- the act of inventing
- a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
- the creation of something in the mind related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- apparition,
- arrangement,
- artifact,
- authorship,
- beginning,
- brainchild,
- breakthrough,
- bringing to light,
- bubble,
- canard,
- casual discovery,
- catching,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- chance discovery,
- child,
- chimera,
- coinage,
- composition,
- conception,
- concoction,
- contraption,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- creation,
- creative effort,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- creature,
- crowning achievement,
- delirium,
- descant,
- detection,
- determination,
- determining,
- development,
- device,
- devising,
- disclosure,
- discovery,
- distillation,
- distinguishment,
- effect,
- eidolon,
- electronic music,
- end product,
- espial,
- essence,
- etude,
- excavation,
- exercise,
- exhumation,
- exposure,
- extract,
- extravaganza,
- fable,
- fabrication,
- fake,
- falsehood,
- falsification,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fecundity,
- fertile mind,
- fertility,
- fib,
- fiction,
- figment,
- find,
- finding,
- finding out,
- forgery,
- fruit,
- gadget,
- generation,
- gizmo,
- hallucination,
- handiwork,
- harmonization,
- hatching,
- idle fancy,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- improvisation,
- incidental music,
- ingenuity,
- innovation,
- instrumental music,
- insubstantial image,
- introduction,
- inventiveness,
- issue,
- leap,
- lie,
- locating,
- location,
- lucky strike,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- making do,
- manufacture,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- mintage,
- myth,
- neologism,
- new mintage,
- new phase,
- nocturne,
- novelty,
- offspring,
- opera,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- orchestration,
- original,
- originality,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- piece,
- pregnant imagination,
- prevarication,
- product,
- production,
- productivity,
- program music,
- prolificacy,
- recognition,
- rediscovery,
- result,
- revelation,
- ricercar,
- romance,
- score,
- serendipity,
- sham,
- sick fancy,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- spotting,
- story,
- strike,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- study,
- tale,
- tall story,
- tall tale,
- teeming imagination,
- theme and variations,
- thick-coming fancies,
- treasure trove,
- trio,
- trip,
- trouvaille,
- trove,
- uncovering,
- unearthing,
- vapor,
- variation,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- work,
- yarn
- trio
collapse
- a musical composition for three performers
- three people considered as a unit
- a set of three similar things considered as a unit
- three performers or singers who perform together related words >
- German band,
- Nachtmusik,
- Philharmonic,
- absolute music,
- adaptation,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- arrangement,
- band,
- big band,
- bipartisanship,
- brass,
- brass band,
- brass choir,
- brass quintet,
- brass section,
- brasses,
- callithumpian band,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- clover,
- coaction,
- coadjuvancy,
- coadministration,
- coagency,
- cochairmanship,
- codirectorship,
- collaboration,
- collaborativeness,
- collectivism,
- collusion,
- combo,
- commensalism,
- common effort,
- common enterprise,
- communalism,
- communism,
- communitarianism,
- community,
- complicity,
- composition,
- concert,
- concert band,
- concord,
- concordance,
- concurrence,
- cooperation,
- cooperativeness,
- descant,
- desks,
- deuce-ace,
- dixieland band,
- duet,
- duettino,
- duo,
- duumvirate,
- ecumenicalism,
- ecumenicism,
- ecumenism,
- electronic music,
- ensemble,
- ensemble music,
- ensemble singing,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- etude,
- exercise,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- gamelan orchestra,
- group,
- harmonization,
- harmony,
- incidental music,
- instrumental music,
- invention,
- jazz band,
- joining of forces,
- joint effort,
- joint operation,
- jug band,
- leash,
- mass action,
- military band,
- morale,
- mutual assistance,
- mutualism,
- mutuality,
- nocturne,
- octet,
- opus,
- orchestra,
- orchestration,
- part music,
- part singing,
- part song,
- piece,
- polyphonic music,
- pooling,
- pooling of resources,
- production,
- program music,
- pulling together,
- quartet,
- quintet,
- ragtime band,
- reciprocity,
- ricercar,
- rock-and-roll group,
- score,
- septet,
- septuor,
- sestet,
- set of three,
- sextet,
- shamrock,
- skiffle band,
- solidarity,
- sonata,
- sonatina,
- steel band,
- street band,
- string band,
- string choir,
- string orchestra,
- string quartet,
- strings,
- study,
- swing band,
- symbiosis,
- symphony,
- symphony orchestra,
- synergism,
- synergy,
- team spirit,
- teamwork,
- tercet,
- ternary,
- ternion,
- terzet,
- terzetto,
- theme and variations,
- three,
- threesome,
- tierce,
- trefoil,
- trey,
- triad,
- trialogue,
- triangle,
- tricorn,
- trident,
- triennium,
- trihedron,
- trilogy,
- trimester,
- trine,
- trinity,
- trinomial,
- triphthong,
- triple,
- triple crown,
- triple threat,
- triplet,
- triplex,
- triplopy,
- tripod,
- triptych,
- trireme,
- triseme,
- triskelion,
- trisul,
- triumvirate,
- triune,
- triunity,
- trivet,
- troika,
- united action,
- variation,
- waits,
- woodwind,
- woodwind choir,
- woodwind quartet,
- woodwinds,
- work
- descant
collapse
- a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
- talk at great length about something of one's interest
- sing in descant related words >
- Nachtmusik,
- Vorspiel,
- absolute music,
- accompaniment,
- adaptation,
- air,
- air varie,
- aleatory,
- aleatory music,
- alto,
- amplify,
- anthem,
- aria,
- arrangement,
- article,
- ballad,
- baritone,
- bass,
- basso continuo,
- basso ostinato,
- bassus,
- canto,
- cantus,
- cantus figuratus,
- cantus planus,
- carol,
- causerie,
- chamber music,
- chamber orchestra,
- chant,
- chirp,
- chirrup,
- choir,
- chorus,
- comment upon,
- composition,
- concert overture,
- continuo,
- contralto,
- criticize,
- croon,
- curtain raiser,
- deal with,
- detail,
- develop,
- diapason,
- dilate,
- discourse,
- discuss,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissert,
- dissertate,
- dissertation,
- ditty,
- do-re-mi,
- dramatic overture,
- drone,
- elaborate,
- electronic music,
- enlarge,
- enlarge upon,
- essay,
- etude,
- evolve,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exercise,
- expand,
- expatiate,
- explicate,
- exposition,
- feature,
- figured bass,
- first approach,
- go into,
- ground bass,
- handle,
- harmonization,
- homily,
- hum,
- hymn,
- incidental music,
- inquire into,
- instrumental music,
- intonate,
- intone,
- introduction,
- introductory study,
- invention,
- lay,
- lied,
- lilt,
- line,
- lucubration,
- measure,
- melodia,
- melodic line,
- melody,
- memoir,
- minstrel,
- monograph,
- morceau,
- nocturne,
- note,
- operatic overture,
- opus,
- orchestration,
- outline,
- overture,
- pandect,
- paper,
- paragraph,
- part,
- particularize,
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