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‖ morceau|mɔrso|
Pl. morceaux.
[Fr.: see morsel n.]
a. A short literary or musical composition.
1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1799) I. iii. 25 He sat down and produced the following morceau. 1767J. Beattie Let. 8 Jan. (1820) I. 39, I dare say Metastasio despises those little morceaux of sing-song. 1788‘A. Pasquin’ Childr. Thespis (1792) 149 She purloined the stool on which Kemble had writ, The choicest morceaus of his Jesuit wit. 1819Europ. Mag. LXXVI. 161 This very laughable operatic morceau. 1839Geo. Eliot Let. 22 Nov. (1954) I. 34 What I could wish to have added to many of my favourite morceaux is an indication of less satisfaction in terrene objects. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat viii. 119 We played morceaux from the old German masters. 1960Times 29 July 13/2 Surely it would be easy to intersperse congruent morceaux among lyric poems.
b. morceau de musée |də myze|: a museum piece; morceau de salon |də salɔ̃|: a well-known tune elaborated by variations, etc.
1964English Studies XLV. 237 Leaving behind the artifact, the *morceau de musée, ‘Medallion’.
1886F. Hume Mystery of Hansom Cab (1887) viii. 41 When the gentlemen entered the drawing-room a young lady was engaged in playing one of those detestable pieces of music called *Morceau de Salon, in which an unoffending air is taken and variations embroidered on it till it becomes a perfect agony to distinguish the tune and the perpetual rattle of quavers and demi-semi-quavers. 1906A. Bennett Whom God hath Joined v. 185 A morceau de salon of Chaminade's stood on the open piano... Not in Lawrence's house would such examples of the brilliant secondrate have been found conspicuous. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xv. 209 From his [sc. Liszt's] pen there are no ‘Scenes from Childhood’, though there is a series—unfortunately too extensive—of morceaux de salon. |