Adieux

Song TitleAdieux (Search)
Composer(s):Albert Roussel
Author(s):Henri de Régnier
Keyword(s) & Features: Afterlife; Anxious; Approaching; Banks; Beating; Beloved; Bending; Blood; Breaking; Breath; Breathing; Bright; Brushing; Clasping; Climbing; Closed; Closeness; Corners; Corridors; Couples; Danger; Day; Death; Descriptions; Distance; Doors; Dusk; Elbows; Eternity; Evening; Exchanging; Faces; Far away; Farewell; Fleeing; Foam; Folds; Forever; Friendship; Games; Gazing; Gentle; Hands; Hearing; Heartache; Heartbeats; Heavy; Home; Hours; Hulls; Imagery; Intimacy; Intoxication; Iron; Kissing; Lanterns; Leaning; Leaving; Life; Lighthouses; Limestone; Lips; Love; Missing; Mouths; Oceans; Omens; Passage of Time; Playing; Quick; Rain; Receding; Red; Reflections; Residences; Returning; Reunions; Roads; Sadness; Seas; Security; Sensing; Separation; Shadows; Ships; Shores; Shoulders; Sleeves; Slow; Smiling; Solitude; Sounds; Stairs; Standing; Steps; Stones; Suffering; Suffocating; Sunshine; Sweet; Swift; Teasing; Thresholds; Time; Together; Turning; Uncertainty; Vignette; Voices; Walls; Water; Waves; Weather; White; Wind; Wood; Worry
First LineIl est de doux adieux au seuil des portes (Search)
Average Duration6:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1907 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttp://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=44234
Larger WorkQuatre poèmes, Op. 8 (Search)
Musical FormTernary (Search)
Original LanguageFrench (Search)
Score Source https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/92/IMSLP23082-PMLP52770-Roussel_-_4_Po%C3%A8mes,_Op._8_(voice_and_piano).pdf
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWTALCFRRg
Catalog DesignationOp. 8 no. 1 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerHigh voice
Range: D4 - A5 (Search)
Original KeyEb Major (Search)
Dedicated ToPaul Poujaud (Search)
Premiered ByJane Bathori (Search)
ContributorAL (Search)
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