Ariettes oubliées

*Ariettes oubliées*
Ariettes oubliées
Song cycle by Claude Debussy
	The composer in 1884, portrayed by Marcel Baschet
English	Forgotten Songs
Catalogue	L. 60
Text	poems by Paul Verlaine
Language	French
Composed	1885–87
Dedication	Mary Garden
Performed	March 1887
Movements	six
Scoring	voice; piano;

Ariettes oubliées (Forgotten Songs) is a song cycle for voice and piano, L. 60 by Claude Debussy, based on poems by Paul Verlaine. The six ariettes were composed mostly in Rome in 1886. The first two were completed in Paris in March 1887. They are dedicated to the singer Mary Garden who also sang Mélisande. The poetry of Paul Verlaine had a more profound influence on Claude Debussy's music than did Debussy's closest literary or musical acquaintances.^[1]

Debussy and Verlaine were both inspired by subtlety and nuance. Each man sought to innovate by using rhythm and tone color as the basis for a new form of a pre-existing art. In the Ariettes oubliées, subtlety, nuance, rhythm and tone color (timbre) converged to create a mature compositional style for Debussy, which, in turn, gave a heightened level of understanding to Verlaine's poetry.^[2] This collection of songs set the tone for all of Debussy's future vocal compositions in terms of rhythm, harmony, tone, color and attention to poetic detail.^[3]

Songs[]

No. 2: "Il pleure dans mon cœur"

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No 4: "Chevaux de bois"

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No. 6: "Aquarelles II. Spleen"

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all by: Xiaobo Su, soprano; Giorgi Latso, piano

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"Le vent dans la plaine suspend son haleine": C'est l'extase langoureuse
"Il pleut doucement sur la ville": Il pleure dans mon cœur comme il pleut sur la ville
"Le rossignol qui, du haut d'une branche": L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée
"Paysages belges. Chevaux de bois": Tournez, tournez, bons chevaux de bois
"Aquarelles I. Green": Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles
"Aquarelles II. Spleen": Les roses étaient toutes rouges

Duration play: c.16 minutes

References[]

^ Wenk, Arthur B., Claude Debussy and the Poets, (Berkeley: University of California Press, c. 1976), 130. (Retrieved: 10 July 2013)
^ Wintle, Catherine., Ariettes oubliées: A marriage of music and poetry (2002)., Historical musicology (Western music)., Ann Arbor, MI., Accession N.2002-014777-dd (Retrieved: 4 December 2010)
^ Pehlivanian, Elisabeth Zachary., Ariettes oubliées: A sonorous symbolism., California State University, Long Beach. 1993 (Retrieved: 10 December 2010)

Bibliography[]

Chłopicka, Regina., Claude Debussy: C'est l'extase langoureuse do słów P. Verlaine'a (1887)., Kraków: Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie. 1989
Rolf, Marie., Des Ariettes (1888) aux Ariettes oubliées (1903)., Des Ariettes (1888) aux Ariettes oubliées (1903) (1992). NY: William Morrow
Fischer, Kurt von., Bemerkungen zu den zwei Ausgaben von Debussys Ariettes oubliees., Mainz, Germany: Schott. 1971
Pehlivanian, Elisabeth Zachary., Ariettes oubliées: A sonorous symbolism., California State University, Long Beach. 1993
Wintle, Anne Catherine., Ariettes oubliées: A marriage of music and poetry., Santa Barbara. 2002

External links[]

Ariettes oubliées: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Reel, James. Ariettes oubliées at AllMusic. Retrieved 22 October 2013.

[1] Wenk, Arthur B., Claude Debussy and the Poets, (Berkeley: University of California Press, c. 1976), 130. (Retrieved: 10 July 2013)

[2] Wintle, Catherine., Ariettes oubliées: A marriage of music and poetry (2002)., Historical musicology (Western music)., Ann Arbor, MI., Accession N.2002-014777-dd (Retrieved: 4 December 2010)

[3] Pehlivanian, Elisabeth Zachary., Ariettes oubliées: A sonorous symbolism., California State University, Long Beach. 1993 (Retrieved: 10 December 2010)

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