Composition: 10 Mélodies (Viardot, Pauline)

Title 10 Mélodies
Alternative title Album de chant
Creators Pauline Viardot (composer)
Opus Solitude, VWV 1044 ; La petite chevrière, VWV 1045 ; L'absence, VWV 1046 ; Un jour de printemps, VWV 1082 ; Villanelle, VWV 1083 ; En mer, VWV 1084 ; La chanson de Loïc, VWV 1085 ; Marie et Julie, VWV 1086 ; La Luciole, VWV 1087 ; Tarentelle, VWV 1088
Instrumentation voice and piano
Number of movements 10
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First published 1850
Dedication :1. à Lady Th. Monson
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Composition types Melodies
Language French
Period Romantic
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Solitude. "La primevère mourante Aspirait la brise errante". — — —
La Petite chevrière. "Ah! c’est déjà ma fauvette Qui chante sur le pommier". (The author of the words is not named in the publicationbut they are either byarranged byor perhaps translated from some other language by Turgenev: see TurgenevPis’mavol. 1pp. 241243) — — —
L’Absence. (Caña española.) "Aux longs tourments de l’absence Le seul remède est mourir.’ Anonymous. (Includes at the end the originally Spanish texttaken probably from Zamácola’s Colección (p. 165): ‘Si de tu ausencia no muero, Y con ella he de morir.’) — — —
Un jour de printemps. Caprice. "La légère fleur Tremble sur sa tige, L’abeille voltige". This (and perhaps other songs in the collection) would be included in the series Romances, nocturnes, chansonnettes, avec accompagnement de piano, published in Paris by G. Brandus et S. Dufour and much later overstamped by J. Hamelle : see the album MR290.a.85.350 at Cambridge University Library. — — —
Villanelle. "Voici venir sur la pelouse Les rayons du soleil qui meurt". — — —
En mer. "La lune dans les cieux, promenant ses clartés, Se mirait sur les flots, sur les flots argentés". — — —
La Chanson de Loïc. "Dès que la grive est éveillée Sur cette lande encor mouillée, Je viens m’asseoir, jusques au soir". — — —
Marie et Julie. (for tenor) "Les lys sont bien charmants; Mais j’aime aussi la rose". — — —
La Luciole. "Voyez la Luciole, Voyez comme elle vole, En précédant ses sœurs". — — —
Tarentelle. "Dansez, pêcheur napolitain, En chantant votre gai refrain" (A song to traditional wordslater cited in a variant form in George Sand’s play Flaminio (1854). The music was adapted from 1839, Mouvement de tarentelle). — — —

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Details Section Type Publisher Date File
view Complete — Brandus 1850 Complete Score · view
view Complete — Brandus et Cie — 6. En Mer · view

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