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Fêtes Galantes: 1er Tableau - Les Masques for solo/mixed chorus and orchestra
Classical/Opera • 1913 • Lyricist: Paul Verlaine
Fêtes Galantes: 1er Tableau - Les Masques for solo/mixed chorus and orchestra
Title by uploader: Fêtes Galantes: 1er Tableau - Les Masques for solo/mixed chorus and orchestra - Score Only
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Sheet music file
24.95
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Seller
Musik Fabrik
PDF, 1.63 Mb ID: SM-000537655
Upload date: 28 Jul 2022
Instrumentation
Celesta, Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon, Oboe, Trumpet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass, Harp, Mandolin, Timpani, Countertenor, Tenor, Mixed choir, Percussion
Scored for
Solo, Choir, Symphonic orchestra
Type of score
Full score
Movement(s)
1 to 1 from 1
Publisher
Musik Fabrik
Language
French
Difficulty
Advanced
Duration
5'30
Scored for baritone (or countertenor) soloist, mixed chorus and orchestra (2222/2200/timp/2perc/hp/cel/mand/strings).
Fêtes galantes was actually planned as a hybrid opera-ballet to a libretto by Debussy’s friend Louis Laloy in November, 1913. For this, Laloy arranged selected poetry by Paul Verlaine into three tableaux, replacing an earlier (unstarted) Debussy a project with Charles Morice of 1912 entitled Crimen amoris. During his last productive summer of 1915, Debussy set a sequence from the start of the first tableau, ‘Les Masques’, involving stanzas 1 and 3 of the opening song for Mezzetin in Verlaine’s comedy Les Uns et les autres (1884). The action is set in a park à la Watteau late one summer afternoon as Mezzetin attempts to entertain a group of nonchalant masqueraders with only the aid of his voice and a mandolin.. This appears to have been prefaced by a slower, elegiac introduction reminiscent of the opening of the comtemporary Cello Sonata and it leads to a danced minuet by the masqued dancers which has clear echoes of the piano piece L’Isle joyeuse (1904). Following Laloy’s scenario, the masqueraders then sing extracts from Verlaine’s ‘A la promenade’ (from Fêtes galantes itself). The minuet returns at greater length before being cut short by a chilly gust of wind, after which the park returns to its orginal state (and music) as though nothing had really happened.
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