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Minuit pile et face
Song Title
Minuit pile et face (
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Composer(s):
Olivier Messiaen
Author(s):
Olivier Messiaen
Keyword(s) & Features:
Air
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Alone
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Anguish
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Beasts
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Beds
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Bells
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Blankets
;
Blue
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Bodies
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Bones
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Carnivals
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Chests
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Chiming
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Circles
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Cities
;
Comfort
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Comforting
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Composer is Poet
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Dancing
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Dark
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Deceitful
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Dementia
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Distress
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Dying
;
Ears
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Eating
;
Eleven
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Errors
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Eyes
;
Falling Asleep
;
Fathers
;
Fear
;
Fearing
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Gifts
;
Heads
;
Jesus
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Knots
;
Lambs
;
Laughing
;
Lord
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Love
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Midnight
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Mountains
;
Nails
;
Night
;
Nine
;
Oblivion
;
Passage of Time
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Pride
;
Rotting
;
Ruins
;
Rust
;
Singing
;
Sinning
;
Spirits
;
Streets
;
Sweat
;
Ten
;
Time
;
Torches
;
Twelve
;
Vibrating
First Line
Ville, oeil puant (
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Average Duration
4:45 (
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Year of composition
1938 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.atmaclassique.com/pdf/Livret/6381d017-b456-4771-9730-40a090fc729d_2564_livret_FF.pdf
Larger Work
Chants de terre et de ciel (
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Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Original Language
French (
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Score Source
https://www.worldcat.org/title/chants-de-terre-et-de-ciel-soprano-et-piano/oclc/25345914
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NdjLh9Qrhat1Q2LyKr4Ie?si=fdAY7UUPRDmwLv8zIJ98tg
Difficulty Level
Masters/YA; Professional (
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Catalog Designation
Chants de terre et de ciel, no. 5 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Soprano
Range:
C4 - A#5 (
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Dedicated To
Death (
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Premiered By
Marcelle Bunlet, soprano & Olivier Messiaen, piano; January 23, 1939 (
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Recommended Printed Source
https://www.prestomusic.com/sheet-music/products/7580111--olivier-messiaen-oeuvres-pour-soprano-et-piano
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Contributor
JEM (
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