la fleur et le papillon Faure

concert mondouzil
la fleur et le papillon

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Music

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• fleur
• papillon
• faure
• mondouzil
• lyrissimo

[John27346]

Thank you too.

[zzobrabre]

@John27346 I don't think he would like that .

we are both right, as it is up to personal feeling of the song, though I must say that facts are a bit more on my side.

[John27346]

Your description of this music is so fluent that I don't feel the need to listen to it anymore.

[zzobrabre]

@John27346 reply part three

even if you put the marked tempo aside, this is a sad song of unhappy love. Flower is chained to earth and butterfly comes and goes when he pleases. That is why the flower is crying about "sort cruel"

And finally, pianist (keyboardist) had a lot of difficulties playing the introduction passage, and singer did slow down eventually.

The beauty of the words in this song can not be expressed in this tempo. It is too fast.

Thank you

[John27346]

Why don't we dig up Faure and find out who's right?

[zzobrabre]

@John27346 this is the first part of reply

the tempo marked in the score is Allegro non troppo

time signature is 6/8

though sometimes this time signature is counted like ONE two three TWO two three, in which case the group of three eight notes would be considered a beat relevant to counting(A scenario), in this song, according to tempo, you would have to use a simple eight note as the beat(B scenario). Otherwise it would be even faster.

[zzobrabre]

@John27346

Now, Allegro ranges from 120 to 168 bpm. If you add Non Troppo, that would most likely keep it in the lower half, say from 120 to 144 bpm.

If you count eight notes, you will see that the tempo is over 200 bpm, at least at the very beginning which is often one of the most important moments of the interpretation.

If, on the other hand, you would use A scenario for counting, it would be too slow, around 70 bpm.

[John27346]

There are things wrong with this performance; Being too fast is not one of them.

[zzobrabre]

Allegro, MA NON TROPPO !!!