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IL PLEURE DANS MON COEUR

Second piece of the Cycle

TROIS CHANSONS TRISTES?

with lyrics by Paul Verlaine

Tomas Luis de Victoria Polyphonic Music

Composition Contest, City of Avila, Spain 2003

FIRST PRIX

In ‘IL PLEURE DANS MON COEUR’ Verlaine does not abandon his distinctive melancholy; however, I chorally begin to try of make a distance, so to speak, between the own person and his feelings. ‘Pleuve’-‘Pleure’, rain-weeping, play on words, play of emotions, funny-heavy droppings raindrops, grave-ironical tearful weeping… Nevertheless, it prevail the ‘langueur’ and the ‘peine’…

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Profane

SATB divisi

a capella

French

Paul Verlaine

2003