Invocation

Song TitleInvocation (Search)
Composer(s):Albert Roussel
Author(s):Henri de Régnier
Keyword(s) & Features: Beautiful; Beauty; Blooming; Country; Dark; Darkness; Divine; Earth; Favorable; Flowers; Gardens; Gentle; Hearing; Hearts; Hours; Imagery; Keeping Silent; Love; Murmurs; Nature; Neighbors; Night; Nocturnal; Perfect; Perfuming; Personification: Earth; Personification: Love; Personification: Night; Pleasure; Profound; Quiet; Repeating; Romance; Roses; Scents; Secrets; Shadows; Silence; Sky; Sleeping; Smell; Solemn; Sound; Speaking; Starry; Stars; Steps; Supreme; Sweet; Thinking; Uniting; Voices; Windows
First LinePour que la nuit soit douce il faudra que les roses (Search)
Average Duration4:00 (Search)
Year of composition 1907 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=461956
Larger WorkQuatre poèmes, Op. 8 (Search)
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsSymbolism (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#page=9
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLzNHcj9KaQ
Catalog DesignationOp. 8 no. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerMedium/Low voice
Range: Bb3 - F5 (Search)
Original KeyBb Major (Search)
Dedicated ToJane Bathori (Search)
Premiered ByJane Bathori (Search)
ContributorGTM (Search)
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