Ici-bas!
Song Title | Ici-bas! (Search) |
Composer(s): | Gabriel Fauré |
Author(s): | Sully Prudhomme |
Keyword(s) & Features: | Brief; Earthly; Ending; Eternal Love; Eternity; Fleeting; Flowers; Friendship; Impermanence; Kissing; Life; Lips; Lost Friendship; Lost Love; Mourning; Summer; Transience; Withered; World |
First Line | Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent, (Search) |
Average Duration | 2:00 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1874 (Search) ? |
Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=15483 |
Larger Work | 3 Songs, Op. 8 (Search) |
Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Parnassianism (Search) |
Original Language | French (Search) |
Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/2/20/IMSLP89504-SIBLEY1802.13720.57c1-39087013813474_ici-bas.pdf |
Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewSaQ5jW8SQ |
Link to IPA Source | https://www.ipasource.com/product/ici-bas-4/ |
Catalog Designation | Op. 8 no. 3 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Mezzo-soprano or Baritone |
Range: | E#4 - F#5 (Search) |
Original Key | F# minor (Search) |
Notes | Poet was the first writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | Peters Urtext Vol. 1 (High/Medium) (Search) |