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A mélodie (French: [melɔdi] ⓘ) is a form of French art song, arising in the mid-19th century. It is comparable to the German Lied. A chanson, by contrast, is a folk or popular French song. The literal …

mélodie, (French: “melody”), the accompanied French art song of the 19th and 20th centuries. Following the model of the German Lied, the 19th-century mélodie was usually a setting of a serious lyric poem …

Aug 14, 2024 · Coined by Hector Berlioz, the term Mélodie refers to short vocal pieces associated with the French Art Song tradition spanning the nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

Mélodie refers to French art songs of the mid - 19th century to the present; it is the French equivalent of the German Lied. It is distinguished from a chanson, which is a folk or popular song. The mélodie is …

The list below includes all pages in the category " Melodies ". This includes French art songs designated by their composers as a mélodie, or instrumental pieces so designated. See also Songs, Lieder, …

Dictionnaire universel de Furetière (1690) Historical definition of MELODIE subst. f. Harmonie, meslange de sons agreables à l'oreille. Ces Bergers avec leurs voix & leurs musettes formoient une agreable …

Where the German lied frequently involves long, uninhibited emotional outpourings, the French mélodie follows Debussy’s stipulation that “clarity of expression, precision and concentration of form are …

Jun 26, 2023 · Once you fall in love with French mélodie, the following playlist will give you even more to sing about. Jean-Philippe Rameau “Viens, Hymen” from Les Indes galantes (1735) Before mélodie …

Le mot mélodie s'oppose ainsi à la polyphonie — ou harmonie, ces deux termes pris dans leur sens le plus large de « procédé musical utilisant les simultanéités délibérées » —, cette technique d'écriture …