Le clocher chante

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Song TitleLe clocher chante (Search)
Composer(s):Samuel Barber
Composer Underrepresented GroupLGBTQ+ (Search)
Author(s):Rainer Maria Rilke
Keyword(s) & Features: Beer; Boys; Carillons; Church Bells; Comforting; Desire to Please; Dropping; Girls; Manna; Metaphor: Music as Manna; Music; Night; Power of Music; Religious; Ripening; Saturday; Secular; Sunday; Tones; Towers; Valais; Warming
First LineMieux qu'une tour profane, (Search)
Average Duration1:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1950 - 1951 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=71741
Larger WorkMélodies passagères (Search)
Musical FormModified strophic (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsModernism (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://www.halleonard.com/product/viewproduct.action?itemid=50490045
Audio Source https://open.spotify.com/track/7lweO6MYd2SEedEgHNM6Q5
Link to IPA Source https://www.ipasource.com/product/le-clocher-chante-3/
Difficulty LevelCollege (Search)
Catalog DesignationOp. 27 no. 4 (Search)
Range: C4 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyF minor (Search)
Dedicated ToFrancis Poulenc and Pierre Bernac (Search)
Premiered ByEileen Farrell; Samuel Barber (Search)
NotesAlso available in high key (G minor) (Search)
Recommended Printed SourceG. Schirmer, "Samuel Barber: 65 Songs" (Search)
Sources CitedHeyman, B. (2012). Samuel Barber : A thematic catalogue of the complete works. New York: Oxford University Press. (Search)
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