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S.3.25 Le melancolique


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View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare


Image Metadata:

Image Description:

Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / L. J. Masquelier Sculp.”

Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François”

Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I”

Year:

Inscription: “Lugubre nuit, par vos ténébres, / Venés chaßer l’éclat du jour.”

Keywords: night, exterior,Moon, upper class, urban, sky, clouds, Chiroptera (order), Populus (genus), cemetaries, tombs,Ionic order, columns (architectural elements), Corinthian order,ruins, Malva sylvestris, grasses (plants), bas-reliefs (sculpture), bagwigs,urns, plinths,graves, Strigiformes (order), obelisks (monumental pillars)

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General Metadata:

Group Page Range: Vol. 3, 146-150

Title Page Inscription: “LE / MELANCOLIQUE”

Published Notes:

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View Score(s): 1773

Song 1 recording: Lugubre nuit

Credit: Paul McMahon, tenor
Amy Moore, soprano
Erin Helyard, harpsichord (French double by Carey Beebe after Blanchet, 1991)
Temperament: Jean-Henri Lambert, 1774, A:392

Song 1 diction recording:

Credit: Eighteenth-century diction prepared and declaimed by Linda Barcan with the assistance of Erin Helyard and Veronique Duche


Music Metadata:

Song 1 Description:

Song 1 Composer: [Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de]

Song 1 Key Signature: f

Song 1 Time Signature: 3

Song 1 Expression Marks: Largo

Song 1 Tessitura of Voice: c1-ab2

Song 1 Tessitura of Instrument: Eb-f2

Song 1 Strophic: Non-strophic

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Song 1 Transcription:
Lugubre nuit par vos ténébres
venés chasser l’éclat du jour
de vos Oiseaux
les chants funébres
peuvent seuls
consoler un malheureux amour
consoler un malheureux amour;
leurs voix plaintives
toujours craintives
taisent leurs feux
jusqu’au moment
où l’ombre
avec son voile sombre
vient
couvrir l’immensité des cieux
alors par leurs cris
mes maux sont adoucis.
à leurs accens j’unis
ma voix tremblante
cette triste horreur
appaise la douleur
qui dans mon cœur à chaque instant
est renaissante
répetter aux échos
tous mes maux
fait à mon triste cœur
gouter quelque repôs.


Text Metadata:

Song 1 Text Description:

Song 1 Incipit: Lugubre nuit

Song 1 Author: “Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de”

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Filed Under: Song Set Tagged With: bagwigs, bas-reliefs (sculpture), cemetaries, Chiroptera (order), clouds, columns (architectural elements), Corinthian order, exterior, grasses (plants), graves, Ionic order, Malva sylvestris, Moon, night, obelisks (monumental pillars), plinths, Populus (genus), ruins, sky, Strigiformes (order), tombs, upper class, urban, urns

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DOI: 10.25911/5fb2475a57401

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This research was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (Performing Transdisciplinarity DP170102666).

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