Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lullaby.
- noun A soothing musical composition, usually in 6/8 time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cradle-song; especially, a vocal or instrumental composition of a tender, quiet, and soothing character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A vocal or instrumental composition of a soft tranquil character, having a lulling effect; a cradle song.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
lullaby
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lullabies written by established classical composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is French for lullaby, or cradle song.
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Lullabies written by established classical composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is French for lullaby, or cradle song.
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Amsterdam Art "Kiefer & Rembrandt" displays "La berceuse for Van Gogh," an artwork created by the German artist Anselm Kiefer, inspired by Rembrandt's "The Night Watch," alongside photographs of Kiefer by Anton Corbijn.
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Now, with the blunderbuss business behind him, he turned his mind to several other unusual occurrences in the past few hours, not the least of which was why he had arrived back at the Bijou Theater humming a Chopin berceuse.
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Now, with the blunderbuss business behind him, he turned his mind to several other unusual occurrences in the past few hours, not the least of which was why he had arrived back at the Bijou Theater humming a Chopin berceuse.
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Among his works, besides piano pieces and songs, are: "A May Song," for women's chorus and piano; six pieces for violin and piano; "Harold," a ballad for male chorus, barytone solo, and orchestra; "Were It Not For Love," composed for male chorus; several sets of male choruses; a motet for mixed chorus a cappella; a berceuse for string orchestra, an introduction and rondo for violin and orchestra; and a "Marche Nuptiale," for grand orchestra.
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"Promenade," and "Mazurka" are to be mentioned, and a number of pieces for violin and piano, among them a finely built intermezzo, a berceuse, a romanza that should be highly effective, and a witty scherzino.
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He has written for strings a berceuse and a scherzino, which have been played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and certain part songs, as well as a chorus for female voices and string orchestra, have been sung in London.
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Doubtless she knew it too, as she sat there sewing on the frail garment which lay across her knee and singing blithely under her breath some air with cadence like a berceuse.
Athalie Frank Craig 1899
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Old as were the words, the melody was older -- so old and quaint and sweet that it seemed a berceuse fashioned to soothe the drowsing centuries, lest the memories of ancient wrongs awake and rouse the very dead from their Gothic tombs.
johnmperry commented on the word berceuse
a lullaby. French = shepherdess
July 24, 2008