NOCTURN, or NOCTURNE (Lat. nocturnus,...
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Originally appearing in Volume
V19,
Page 731
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
NOCTURN, or NOCTURNE (Lat. nocturnus, of or belonging to the night, nox)
, in the Roman See also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
, one of the three divisions of the See also: - OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
of matins, corresponding with the vigils, beginning at 9 P.M. midnight and 3 A.M. respectively
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The service consists of psalms, lessons and antiphons (see BREVIARY)
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The term " nocturne " is applied to a musical composition, answering to the earlier " serenade, " of a quiet, dreamy and romantic character
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The name and style are said to have originated with John See also: - FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
(1782-1837)
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The best-known compositions of this kind are the pianoforte pieces of Chopin
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McNeill Whistler also introduced the term into painting by using the name for some of his night-pieces
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A " nocturnal " is an instrument for finding the hour of the night by observation of the relative positions of the pole- star and other stars, generally the pointers of Ursa Major
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The British Museum contains a fine nocturnal made about 156o by Humfray Cole (see NAVIGATION)
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