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étude. noun [ C ] music specialized uk / ˈeɪ.tjuːd / us / ˈeɪ.tuːd /. Add to word list. a piece of music intended to be played to improve a musician's technical skills. The word comes from the French for "study". SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Musical pieces. arrangement.
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a piece of music for the practice of a point of technique; a composition built on a technical motive but played for its artistic value… See the full definition
Étude definition: a musical composition, usually instrumental, intended mainly for the practice of some point of technique.. See examples of ÉTUDE used in a sentence.
Sense 1. Meaning: A short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity. Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents. Hypernyms ("etude" is a kind of...): composition; musical composition; opus; piece; piece of music (a musical work that has been created)
étude, in music, originally a study or technical exercise, later a complete and musically intelligible composition exploring a particular technical problem in an esthetically satisfying manner.
