Le colibri

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Song TitleLe colibri (Search)
Composer(s):Ernest Chausson
Author(s):Leconte de Lisle
Keyword(s) & Features: Air; Bamboo; Beloved; Birds; Clear; Cups; Darting; Dew; Divine; Drinking; Dying; Excesses; First; Flowers; Flying; Fragrant; Fullness; Glistening; Golden; Grass; Green; Hearts; Hibiscus; Hills; Hummingbirds; Hurrying; Kings; Kisses; Kissing; Light; Lips; Love; Lovers; Metaphor: Hummingbird and Flower as Narrator and Lover; Morning; Nature; Nests; Personification: Hummingbirds; Personification: Nature; Pink; Red; Scents; Seas; Shining; Souls; Springs; Sun; Wishing
First LineLe vert colibri, le roi des colines (Search)
Average Duration3:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1879 - 1880 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=10271
Larger WorkSept Mélodies, Op. 2 (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsParnassianism (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/5/5d/IMSLP16897-Chausson_Melodies_Op2.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/2Fe44JyZZwtCxnxJvTvP3P?si=Bv8H2hIgQKysuI43N9k96g
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/le-colibri-2/
Difficulty LevelHS/College (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 2 no. 7 (Search)
Range: F4 - Gb5 (Search)
Original KeyDb Major (Search)
Dedicated ToLady Harbord (Search)
ContributorAL; JC , Meg Lynch (Search)
Contributor Affiliation University of Connecticut (Search)
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