Le Delphinium

Song TitleLe Delphinium (Search)
Composer(s):Arthur Honegger
Author(s):Paul Claudel
Keyword(s) & Features: Aerial; Azure; Beauty; Being Bored; Black; Blue; Born; Bright; Burning; Colors; Coral; Delphinium; Enormous; Fire; Flowers; Fresh; Glory; God; July; Large; Metaphor: Flower as Torch; Milk; Millet; Personification: Flowers; Pure; Real; Sapphires; Shivering; Sky; Snow; Torches; Triumph
First LineToute pure comme le ciel (Search)
Average Duration1:45 (Search)
Year of composition 1940 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=3839
Larger WorkTrois poèmes de Claudel (Search)
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsSymbolism; Académie française (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/14500
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d3a_--ruT0
Catalog DesignationH. 138 no. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium/High voice
Range: C4 - Ab5 (Search)
Dedicated ToPierre Bernac (Search)
Recommended Printed SourcePublished in Melodies et Chansons de Honegger, Editions Salabert, Paris, 1989 (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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