morceau


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morceau

(mɔrso)
n, pl -ceaux (-so)
1. a fragment or morsel
2. (Music, other) a short composition, esp a musical one
[C18: from Old French: morsel]
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Noun1.morceau - a short literary or musical composition
piece - an artistic or literary composition; "he wrote an interesting piece on Iran"; "the children acted out a comic piece to amuse the guests"
musical composition, opus, piece of music, composition, piece - a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements"
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Pierre Henry est connu du grand public francais pour le morceau "Psyche Rock" qui figure dans la suite de danses "Messe pour le temps present" sortie en 1967 et qu'il a composee avec son compatriote Michel Colombier.
Francis Thome: Duo d'Amour; Leon Van Cromphout: Melodie; Alphonse Hasselmans: Rouet; Jean-Theodore Radoux: Meditation; Brahms: Albumblatt; Edmond Weber: Duo pour Cor et Harpe; Frangois-Joseph Fetis: Petit Piece; Saint-Saens: Romance Opus 36; Adolphe Samuel: Morceau de Concours; Brahms: Trio Opus 40 for Horn, Violin, and Piano.
"Sewing the flowers of Heaven" etait le titre du premier morceau chinois de ce concert grandiose qui raconte, sur les rythmes d'une melodie douce et elegante au violon et au hautbois, l'histoire d'un groupe de femmes, du plein coeur de la chine ancienne, qui tissent, avec un devouement remarque et une affection sincere, des fleurs "paradisiaques" sur un tapis pour les presenter a l'humanite en signe d'amour et de compassion.
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But there are far more elusive threads: le morceau bien peint ("the well-painted bit") of Thomas Couture's anecdotal harlequinades, for example, that once-famous academician's aligning of small passages of paint side by side in strokes so just and true that when examined closely they strike the eye as fractured and oddly abstract bits of pure materiality.