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Etude   Listen
noun
etude  n.  
1.
A composition in the fine arts which is intended, or may serve, for a study.
2.
(Mus.) A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.






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"Etude" Quotes from Famous Books



... 101: Low, The Governance of England, Chap. 9; M. Sibert, Etude sur le premier ministre en Angleterre depuis ses origines jusqu'a l'epoque ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... masterpieces. Less interesting, though still important, are the 'Scenes of Private Life,' which consist of twenty-four novels, novelettes, and tales, under the following titles: 'Beatrix,' 'Albert Savarus,' 'La Fausse maitresse' (The False Mistress), 'Le Message' (The Message), 'La Grande Breteche,' 'Etude de femme' (Study of Woman), 'Autre etude de femme' (Another Story of Woman), 'Madame Firmiani,' 'Modeste Mignon,' 'Un Debut dans la vie' (An Entrance upon Life), 'Pierre Grassou,' 'Memoires de deux jeunes mariees' (Recollections ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various

... its sentiment. At Munich he played his second concerto and pleased greatly. But he did not remain in the Bavarian capital, hastening to Stuttgart, where he heard of the capture of Warsaw by the Russians, September 8, 1831. This news, it is said, was the genesis of the great C minor etude in opus 10, sometimes called the "Revolutionary." Chopin exclaimed in a letter dated December 16, 1831, "All this caused me much pain—who could have foreseen it!" and in another letter he wrote, "How glad my mamma will be that I did not go ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker

... je dois a Mr. de Redden, perfectionnee par l'etude des phenomenes, donnera peut-etre un jour le mot ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton

... two letters, but French words like "etude" have accents, you have the latin-1 version. Apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight ("typewriter" form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can't get ...
— Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) • John Oldmixon


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