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==Music files {{editions|3}}==
==General information==
{{Legend}}


''(The three songs are mentioned below in the order in which the composer asked them to be published)''
'''Title:''' ''Trois chansons pour chœur mixte sans accompagnement''
=== Nicolette ===
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:'''Editor:''' [[User:Camille Martin|Camille Martin]] ''(added 2007-08-02)''.   '''Score information:''' A4, 3 pages, 42 kbytes   {{Copy|CPDL}}
:'''Edition notes:'''  


=== Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis ===
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:'''Edition notes:''' French and English text underlays.
=== Ronde ===
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:'''Edition notes:'''
*'''CPDL #14649:''' [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/f/f3/Ravel-Ronde.pdf {{pdf}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/2/24/Ravel-Ronde.mid {{mid}}] [{{SERVER}}/wiki/images/d/dc/Ravel-Ronde.sib Sibelius 4]
:'''Editor:''' [[User:Camille Martin|Camille Martin]] ''(added 2007-08-02)''.   '''Score information:''' A4, 9 pages, 83 kbytes   {{Copy|CPDL}}
:'''Edition notes:'''
==General Information==
'''Title:''' ''Trois Chansons''<br>
{{Composer|Maurice Ravel}}
{{Composer|Maurice Ravel}}


{{Voicing|4|SATB}}<br>
{{Voicing|4|SATB}}
'''Genre:''' {{pcat|Secular| music}}, [[:Category:Chansons|Chanson]]<br>
{{Language|French}}
'''Instruments:''' {{acap}}<br>
'''Published:'''
 
'''Description:'''
 
'''External websites:'''
 
==Original text and translations==
{{Text|French}}
 
'''Nicolette'''
 
:Nicolette, à la vesprée,
:S`allait promener au pré,
:Cueillir la pâquerette, la jonquille et le muguet.
:Toute sautillante, toute guillerette,
:Lorgnant ci, là de tous les côtés.
<br>
 
:Rencontra vieux loup grognant,
:Tout hérissé, l`oeil brillant:
:"Hé là! ma Nicolette, viens-tu pas chez Mère-Grand?"
:A perte d`haleine, s`enfuit Nicolette,
:Laissant là cornette et socques blancs.
<br>
 
:Rencontra page joli,
:Chausses bleues et pourpoint gris:
:"Hé là! ma Nicolette, veux-tu pas d`un doux ami?"
:Sage, s`en retourna, très lentement, le coeur bien marri.
<br>
 
:Rencontra seigneur chenu,
:Tors, laid, puant et ventru:
:"Hé là! ma Nicolette veux-tu pas tous ces écus?"
:Vite fut en ses bras, bonne Nicolette,
:Jamais au pré n`est plus revenue.
<br>
 
'''Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis'''


:Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis,
'''Published:''' Ed. Durand (Paris), 1916
:(Mon ami z'il est à la guerre)  
:Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis
:Ont passé par ici.
<br>


:Le premier était plus bleu que ciel,
'''Description:''' These songs for unaccompanied chorus were written between December 1914 (''Trois beaux oiseaux'') and February 1915 (''Nicolette'' and ''Ronde''), while Ravel was waiting to be enlisted in the army. The songs were published in 1916, but did not receive their first performance until October 1917 with a chorus assembled by Jane Bathori and her husband.
:(Mon ami z'il est à la guerre)  
:Le second était couleur de neige,  
:Le troisième rouge vermeil.  
<br>


:"Beaux oiselets du Paradis,  
The songs mark a rare foray into choral writing for Ravel, the first since his ill-fated entries for the Prix de Rome (apart from the wordless choruses in Daphnis et Chloé). Part of the special interest of Trois chansons is that Ravel himself wrote the texts for them. The first and last of the poems have an ironic humour, and he clearly revelled in the use of language; the second makes repeated reference to going away to war, as its dedicatee Painlevé had already done, and as Ravel was then preoccupied with doing.
:(Mon ami z'il est à la guerre)  
:Beaux oiselets du Paradis,  
:Qu'apportez par ici?"
<br>


:"J'apporte un regard couleur d'azur.
==List of works==
:(Ton ami z'il est à la guerre)"
:"Et moi, sur beau front couleur de neige,
:Un baiser dois mettre, encor plus pur"
<br>


:"Oiseau vermeil du Paradis,
The three songs are mentioned below in the order in which the composer asked them to be published:
:(Mon ami z'il est à la guerre)
:Oiseau vermeil du Paradis,
:Que portez-vous ainsi?"
<br>


:"Un joli coeur tout cramoisi ...
:''1. [[Nicolette (Maurice Ravel)|Nicolette]]'' (dedicated to the poet and fellow-Apache Tristan Klingsor)
:(Ton ami z'il est à la guerre)"
:"Ah! je sens mon coeur qui froidit ...
:Emportez-le aussi".
<br>


'''Ronde'''  
:''2. [[Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis (Maurice Ravel)|Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis]]'' (dedicated to Paul Painlevé, mathematician and briefly prime minister in 1917 and 1925)


:[Les vieilles]  
:''3. [[Ronde (Maurice Ravel)|Ronde]]'' (dedicated to Mme Paul Clemenceau, sister-in-law of the past and future prime minister Georges Clemenceau)
:N'allez pas au bois d'Ormonde,
:Jeunes filles, n'allez pas au bois:
:Il y a plein de satyres, de centaures, de malins sorciers,
:Des farfadets et des incubes,
:Des ogres, des lutins,
:Des faunes, des follets, des lamies,
:Diables, diablots, diablotins,  
:Des chèvre-pieds, des gnomes, des démons,
:Des loups-garous, des elfes, des myrmidons,
:Des enchanteurs et des mages,
:Des stryges, des sylphes, des moines-bourrus,
:Des cyclopes, des djinns, gobelins,
:Korrigans, nécromants, kobolds ...
<br>


:[Les vieux]
==External links==
:N'allez pas au bois d'Ormonde,
* http://website.lineone.net/~jdspiers/troischansons.htm
:Jeunes garçons, n'allez pas au bois:
:Il y a plein de faunesses, de bacchantes et de males fées,
:Des satyresses, des ogresses et des babaïagas,
:Des centauresses et des diablesses,
:Goules sortant du sabbat,< br /> Des farfadettes et des démones,
:Des larves, des nymphes, des myrmidones,
:Hamadryades, dryades, naïades, ménades, thyades,
:Follettes, lémures, gnomides,
:Succubes, gorgones, gobelines ...  
:N'allez pas au bois d'Ormonde.
<br>


:[Filles et garçons]
:N'irons plus au bois d'Ormonde,
:Hélas! plus jamais n'irons au bois.
:Il n'y a plus de satyres, plus de nymphes ni de males fées.
:Plus de farfadets, plus d'incubes,
:Plus d'ogres, de lutins,
:De faunes, de follets, de lamies,
:Diables, diablots, diablotins,
:De chèvre-pieds, de gnomes, de démons,
:De loups-garous, ni d'elfes, de myrmidons,
:Plus d'enchanteurs ni de mages, de stryges, de sylphes,
:De moines-bourrus, de cyclopes, de djinns,
:De diabloteaux, d'éfrits, d'aegypans, de sylvains, gobelins,
:Korrigans, nécromans, kobolds ...
:N'allez pas au bois d'Ormonde,
:Les malavisées vieilles,
:Les malavisés vieux
:Les ont effarouchés. Ah!
<br>


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Revision as of 04:42, 16 November 2008

General information

Title: Trois chansons pour chœur mixte sans accompagnement

Composer: Maurice Ravel

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Published: Ed. Durand (Paris), 1916

Description: These songs for unaccompanied chorus were written between December 1914 (Trois beaux oiseaux) and February 1915 (Nicolette and Ronde), while Ravel was waiting to be enlisted in the army. The songs were published in 1916, but did not receive their first performance until October 1917 with a chorus assembled by Jane Bathori and her husband.

The songs mark a rare foray into choral writing for Ravel, the first since his ill-fated entries for the Prix de Rome (apart from the wordless choruses in Daphnis et Chloé). Part of the special interest of Trois chansons is that Ravel himself wrote the texts for them. The first and last of the poems have an ironic humour, and he clearly revelled in the use of language; the second makes repeated reference to going away to war, as its dedicatee Painlevé had already done, and as Ravel was then preoccupied with doing.

List of works

The three songs are mentioned below in the order in which the composer asked them to be published:

1. Nicolette (dedicated to the poet and fellow-Apache Tristan Klingsor)
2. Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis (dedicated to Paul Painlevé, mathematician and briefly prime minister in 1917 and 1925)
3. Ronde (dedicated to Mme Paul Clemenceau, sister-in-law of the past and future prime minister Georges Clemenceau)

External links