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 …

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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.

It is impossible now to know the full extent of Maurice Bagès’s repertoire of contemporary French song. Table 7.1 below lists the mélodies that are identified on Société nationale programmes and in …

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 …

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In the hierarchy of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century repertoires, the French mélodie – sometimes for two voices and piano, more often for one voice with accompaniment – stands at the summit. Its …

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 …

From Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδία (melōidía, “singing, chanting”).