C'est l'extase

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Song TitleC'est l'extase (Search)
Composer(s):Claude Debussy
Author(s):Paul Verlaine
Author Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Anthem; Babbling; Branches; Breezes; Choirs; Connection to Nature; Connections; Contentment; Couples; Cries; Ecstasy; Embracing; Enjoyment; Evening; Exhaling; Fatigue; Forests; Frail; Fresh; Fulfillment; Grass; Happiness; Humble; Intimacy; Lamenting; Laments; Landscapes; Languor; Listening; Love; Murmuring; Nature; Noises; Part of a Song Cycle; Pebbles; Quiet; Relaxation; Resemblance; Rest; Sex; Shivers; Soft; Souls; Sounds; Swirling; Together; Tremors; Voices; Wards; Water; Waving; Whispering; Woods
First LineC'est l'extase langoureuse (Search)
Average Duration3:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1885 - 1887 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=16335
Larger WorkAriettes Oubliées (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsDecadent Movement (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/ab/IMSLP83969-PMLP36001-Debussy_Ariettes_Oubliees_Fromont_1422_filter.pdf
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/6hoeZrcIKkykK0dg5bry1h
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/cest-lextase-2/
Catalog DesignationL 60 no. 1 (Search)
Range: C#4 - A5 (Search)
Original KeyE Major (Search)
Dedicated ToMary Garden (Search)
Premiered ByMaurice Bagès (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceHal Leonard (ed. Briscoe) H.; International. (Search)
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