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Definition of Etude
1. Noun. A short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity.
Definition of Etude
1. Noun. (music) A short piece of music, designed to give a soloist performer practice in a particular area or skill. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of etude) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Etude
1. a piece of music for the practice of a point of technique [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etude
Literary usage of Etude
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition: An Exhaustive Treatise on the by Percy Goetschius (1898)
"THE etude, OR STUDY. 1 32. In the genuine representatives of this class of ...
In the etude proper, the harmonies are not, as a rule, thus prominent in ..."
2. Music: Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music (1899)
"It requires but a superficial acquaintance with current pianoforte instruction
and study to discover that the so-called "etude" plays a very important part ..."
3. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"Yet without the fame of the etude they would never have been so brilliant.
We are now coming nearer the personalities themselves. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"... the clinical phenomena observed in these experiments have some bearing on the
symptomatology of tabes. SPILLER. PATHOLOGY. 6. CONTRIBUTION A L'etude DBS ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"MANUEL POUR L'etude DBS MALADIES DU SYSTEME NERVEUX. Par le DR. MAURICE DE FLEURY.
Felix Alcan, Paris. 25 francs. This is a volume of 1000 pages, ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"etude REALISTS BABY'S feet, like sea-shells pink, Might tempt, should Heaven see
meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. ..."
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