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Le cygne
Song Title
Le cygne (
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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 Line
Il glisse sur le bassin (
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Average Duration
3:30 (
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Year of composition
1906 (
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Link to English Text Online
http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=25432
Larger Work
Histoires naturelles (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Académie Goncourt (
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Original Language
French (
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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 Designation
M. 50 no. 3 (
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Voice part suggested by composer
Medium voice
Range:
D4 - E5 (
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Original Key
B Major (
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Dedicated To
Mme Alfred Edwards (= Misla Godebski) (
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Contributor
AL (
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