{"id":1478,"date":"2009-11-30T09:37:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T09:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2009-12-08T13:15:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T13:15:37","slug":"field-recordings-and-sheet-music-of-nocturnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/site-news\/field-recordings-and-sheet-music-of-nocturnes-1478\/","title":{"rendered":"Field &#8211; Recordings and Sheet Music of Nocturnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Field is generally regarded as the father and inventor of the Nocturne, and influenced several of the later romantics, most notably Chopin.<br \/>\nRather simple in form, these pieces are mainly concerned with setting up a mood \u2013 usually rather melancholy \u2013 and a continuous flow of beautiful melody, with plenty of virtuosic embellishments.<br \/>\nBoth Field and Chopin were in this respect very much under the influence of \u201cbel canto\u201d, the Italian vocal style of the 18th and early 19th centuries, which required a perfect legato production and featured extensive and florid ornamentation.<\/p>\n<p>Piano Street has previously published the Ruthardt edition of all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/search\/searchcollection.php?id=84\">18 Nocturnes.<\/a><br \/>\nThree of Field&#8217;s most popular Nocturnes, no 5, 13 and 16 are now also available from the Piano Street Sheet Music Library in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/search\/urtext_edition_piano_scores.php\"> Piano Street Editions<\/a><\/em> together with recordings by the pianist David W\u00e4rn.<\/p>\n<p>Nocturne no 5 in B-flat Major<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/piano_sheet_music\/Field-1054\/Nocturne-5-B-flat-Major.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/search\/images_tn\/fieldj\/field_nocturne_no5.gif\" alt=\"Filed Nocturne in Bb flat no 5 piano sheet music\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nocturne no 13 in D Minor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/piano_sheet_music\/Field-1062\/Nocturne-13-D-Minor.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Field Nocturne in D minor no 13 piano sheet music\" src=\"\/search\/images_tn\/fieldj\/field_nocturne_no13.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nocturne no 16 in F major<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/piano_sheet_music\/Field-1065\/Nocturne-16-F-Major.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Field Nocturne in F major no 16 piano sheet music\" src=\"\/search\/images_tn\/fieldj\/field_nocturne_no16.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Field is generally regarded as the father and inventor of the Nocturne, and influenced several of the later romantics, most notably Chopin. 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