notturno

[ nuh-toor-noh, noh-; Italian nawt-toor-naw ]

noun,plural not·tur·ni [nuh-toor-nee, noh-; Italian nawt-toor-nee]. /nəˈtʊər ni, noʊ-; Italian nɔtˈtʊər ni/. Music.
  1. an 18th-century composition for chamber orchestra, similar to a serenade or a divertimento.

Origin of notturno

1
<Italian: of the night <Latin nocturnus.See nocturn

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How to use notturno in a sentence

  • The next piece will be Chopin's notturno in E flat; for your touch has already gained in fulness, and is now unobjectionable.

    Piano and Song | Friedrich Wieck
  • notturno for piano and violoncello, in D major (from Op. 8); pub.

  • The Becco notturno, bleating lamentably, sank through the earth, leaving the rotten and stifling odour of sulphur.

    The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci | Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
  • It is full of the grace of a notturno, of the secret grief of hopeless love.

    Massimilla Doni | Honore de Balzac