Gateway to French Mélodies

Features:
Gateway to French Mélodies leads us into a fragrant garden of poetry and music that is both passionate and refined. Each song brings to life one of the great themes of French art---love, nature, the purpose of life---with sensuous beauty, beguiling grace, and often with humor.

Understanding what you sing is the basic concept of the Gateway series. Each lyric is translated, both word-by-word and in readable English. The singer can learn the song with confidence, as obscure points of phonetics, grammar and interpretation are made clear. The cultural context of each song is illuminated, along with its place in the life and works of the composer. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.

Many of the marvelous songs found here been out of print for more than a century and a few are published here for the very first time. The songs include: "Plaisir d'amour," the quintessential song of bittersweet love, edited from the composer's original 1784 edition Seven works by women composers, including two sisters who were divas of Romantic opera, Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot Works of French operatic masters such as Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, and Massenet Six songs by Gabriel Fauré and four by Claude Debussy Two duets from contrasting historical periods

Table of Contents:

• Plaisir d'amour (Florian) - Jean Paul Égide Martini
• Romance d'Arabelle (Millevoye) - Pierre Garat
• La jalousie (anonymous) - Pauline Duchambge
• Puisqu'ici-bas tout âme (Hugo) - Louis Niedermeyer
• L'Andalouse (Musset) - Hippolyte Monpou
• Duet: Belle, viens à moi (Desbordes-Valmore) - Maria Malibran
• Tristesse de l'odalisque (Gautier) - Félicien David
• Chanson de pâtre (Augier) - Charles Gounod
• Sérénade (Hugo) - Charles Gounod
• Le doux sommeil (Ronsard) - Théodore Gouvy
• L'ombre et le jour (Turquety) - Pauline Viardot
• Bonjour, mon coeur (Ronsard) - Pauline Viardot
• Au jardin de mon père (anonymous) - Pauline Viardot
• Berceuse (Bordèse) - Pauline Viardot
• Dieu qui sourit (Hugo) - Edouard Lalo
• Oh, quand je dors (Hugo) - Edouard Lalo
• Clair de lune (Mendès) - Camille Saint-Saëns
• Pourquoi rester seulette (Croze) - Camille Saint-Saëns
• Sonnet (Ronsard) - Georges Bizet
• Sonnet mélancolique (Silvestre) - Alexis de Castillon
• Lied (Mendès) - Emmanuel Chabrier
• Souvenir de Venise (Musset) - Jules Massenet
• Ouvre tes yeux bleus (Robiquet) - Jules Massenet
• Le voyage (Florian) - Emile Paladilhe
• Puisque j’ai mis ma lèvre (Hugo) - Gabriel Fauré
• Les berceaux (Prudhomme) - Gabriel Fauré
• Le secret (Silvestre) - Gabriel Fauré
• Aurore (Silvestre) - Gabriel Fauré
• Nocturne (Villiers) - Gabriel Fauré
• En prière (Bordèse) - Gabriel Fauré
• Extase (Lahor) - Henri Duparc
• Le manoir de Rosemonde (Bonnières) - Henri Duparc
• Duet: La nuit (Banville) - Ernest Chausson
• Romance (Bourget) - Claude Debussy
• Il pleure dans mon coeur (Verlaine) - Claude Debussy
• En sourdine (Verlaine) - Claude Debussy
• Clair de lune (Verlaine) - Claude Debussy
• Que me font ces vallons (Lamartine) - Erik Satie
• Quand reverrai-je, hélas! (Bellay) - André Caplet
• En regardant ces belles fleurs (d'Orléans) - André Caplet
• Colombine (Verlaine) - Poldowski

Catalog:	36533
Publisher:	Alfred Music
Composer:	Various
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Arranger:	ed. John Glenn Paton
Voicing:	High Voice - Book Only, High Voice - Book/CDs, Low Voice - Book Only, Low Voice - Book/CDs
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Pages:	240