French Diction Songs

Edited by Anne and William Leyerle
Revised and Corrected Edition 1990

Contains 25 songs in French, with word-for-word English translations in the appendix. Beneath the French texts on the actual music pages are IPA transcriptions. At the bottom of each page of music, there is a literary English translation of the French. In addition, in the appendix, there is a Greek version of Ravel's five Greek songs, with the melody lines and the IPA transcriptions and word-for-word translations of the Greek texts.

Contents:

• Je languis nuit et jour (J.-B. Lully)
• Vous excitez la plus sincère ardeur (J.P. Rameau)
• L'Amour croît s'il s'inquiète (J.J. Rousseau)
• Dans un bois solitaire (W.A. Mozart)
• L'Absence (H. Berlioz)
• Lied (C. Franck)
• Clair de lune (C. Saint-Saëns)
• La chanson du fou (G. Bizet)
• Villanelle des petits canards (E. Chabrier)
• Pastel (É. Paladilhe)
• En sourdine (G. Fauré)
• Le manoir de Rosamonde (H. Duparc)
• Le charme (E. Chausson)
• Les angélus (C. Debussy)
• Rondel (C. Debussy)
• D'Une prison (R. Hahn)
• Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (M. Ravel)
  • I. Le réveil de la mariée
  • II. Là-bas, vers l'église
  • III. Quel galant m'est comparable
  • IV. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
  • V. Tout gai!
• Civet à toute vitesse (L. Bernstein)
• La chanson de la Glu (J. Johnston)
• Les odes de jeunesse (D. Ward-Steinman)
  • I. À la Forêt de Gastine
  • II. À la Fontaine Bellerie

For the first time, the singer has access to a group of French songs which includes the IPA spelling directly beneath the foreign language text on the actual music page. Although a few of the songs are in high or low range, most are in the medium range.

"...Anne and William Leyerle have provided a tool which makes the job of introducing French repertory and French diction to singers simpler and more efficient... Those who have benefitted from the Leyerles' Song Anthology One and Song Anthology Two will have some idea of the quality and helpfulness of this volume. Those who have not should become familiar with all three."
-- Paul A. Richardson, The American Music Teacher, Feb./March 1987

"...The selected repertoire, for the most part, can not be found in typical anthologies of French song... will be most useful in the voice studio as well as in diction classes..."
-- Richard Dale Sjoerdsma, The NATS Bulletin, November/December 1984
(Now Journal of Singing)

128 Pages Smyth-Sewn Medium to High Range