La chanson de Tessa
| Song Title | La chanson de Tessa (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Maurice Jaubert |
| Author(s): | Jean Giraudoux |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Bathing; Beauty; Birds; Cold; Comparisons; Contrast: Life vs. Death; Dawn; Death; Dying; Eyes; False Love; Fickle Love; Fleeting Love; Flowers; Forgetting; Grief; Joy; Living; Love; Metaphor: Death of a Lover as Death of Joy; Morning; Mourning; Rose Bushes; Roses; Sadness; Silent; Tombs; Withering |
| First Line | Si tu meurs, les oiseuax se tairont pour toujours. (Search) |
| Average Duration | 2:15 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=1286300 |
| Musical Form | Modified strophic (Search) |
| Original Language | French (Search) |
| Score Source | https://www.worldcat.org/title/chanson-de-tessa/oclc/1040353298&referer=brief_results |
| Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvOielii4sQ |
| Original Key | D minor (Search) |
| Notes | Composer killed in combat during World War II (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search) |