nocturne
noun/ˈnɒktɜːn/
/ˈnɑːktɜːrn/
- a short piece of music in a romantic style, especially for the pianoTopics Musicc2Word Originmid 19th cent.: French, from Latin nocturnus ‘of the night’.
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