Chanson perpétuelle

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Song TitleChanson perpétuelle (Search)
Composer(s):Ernest Chausson
Author(s):Charles Cros
Keyword(s) & Features: Abandoning; Absent; Arms; Awaiting; Away; Beloved; Caresses; Charming; Death; Desolate; Devotion; Dreams; Drowning; Dying; Embracing; Entangling; Evening; Flowers; Glances; Golden; Green; Hair; Heartbreak; Hearts; Hopelessness; Kissing; Leaving; Longing; Love; Lovers; Loving; Memory; Mercy; Missing; Names; Nature; Nightingales; Pools; Pride; Recounting; Reeds; Relationships; Shores; Shrouds; Sky; Sleeping; Songs; Souls; Starlight; Suicide; Trembling; Waiting; Water; Wind; Woods
First LineBois frissonnants, ciel étoilé (Search)
Average Duration7:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1898 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=18166
Larger WorkOp. 37 (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsMonologues (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/99/IMSLP26888-PMLP59629-Chausson_-_Chanson_perpétuelle,_Op._37_(trans._soprano_and_piano).pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaDlo7rapvg
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/chanson-de-clown-8547.html
Difficulty LevelCollege (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 37 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Range: C#4 - G#5 (Search)
Original KeyC minor (Search)
NotesIMSLP score is the piano reduction. The full piano quintet score is also available on IMSLP (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceVoice and piano quintet (Search)
ContributorJC (Search)
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