Le cygne

Song TitleLe cygne (Search)
Composer(s):Maurice Ravel
Author(s):Jules Renard
Keyword(s) & Features: Aiming; Approaching; Arms; Basins; Beaks; Birds; Birth; Catching; Clouds; Descriptions; Desires; Digging; Disappearing; Dying; Eating; Emerging; Fat; Feathers; Fishes; Fishing; Flight; Flying; Food; Frustration; Geese; Gliding; Grabbing; Hunger; Hunting; Illusions; Imagery; Lost; Metaphor: Swan as Sleigh; Moments; Moving; Nourishing; Paddling; Perseverance; Personification: Swans; Pieces; Pillows; Plunging; Reflections; Returning; Sacred; Seeing; Silt; Sleeves; Sleighs; Snow; Soft; Sudden; Surviving; Swans; Tiring; Vain; Victims; Water; White; Withdrawing; Women; Worms
First LineIl glisse sur le bassin (Search)
Average Duration3:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1906 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25432
Larger WorkHistoires naturelles (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsAcadémie Goncourt (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/00/IMSLP06158-Ravel_-_Histoires_naturelles.pdf#page=11
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/0h4pckcLK2Smib9DYuoaKi
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/le-cygne-2/
Catalog DesignationM. 50 no. 3 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium voice
Range: D4 - E5 (Search)
Original KeyB Major (Search)
Dedicated ToMme Alfred Edwards (= Misla Godebski) (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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