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Au clair de la lune" (French pronunciation: [o klɛʁ də la lyn(ə)], [1] lit. ' By the Light of the Moon ' ) is a French folk song of the 18th century. Its composer and lyricist are unknown.
Like another famous children's song, "Au clair de la lune", it has an adult theme - in this case, one of lost love.The song speaks of a lover bathing in a fountain, hearing a nightingale singing, and thinking about her lover whom she lost long ago after refusing a bouquet of roses he was offering her, most likely symbolizing him proposing to her.
Clair de lune" (French for "Moonlight") is a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque. Debussy also made two settings of the poem for voice and piano accompaniment.
French; Clair de lune: Votre âme est un paysage choisi Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques. Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune, Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,
Additional recordings include tuning fork, Au Clair de la lune, opening lines of Torquato Tasso's pastoral drama Aminta, Vocal scale and Fly, little bee. [ 8 ] A phonautogram by Scott containing the opening lines of Torquato Tasso 's pastoral drama Aminta , which is the earliest audible record of spoken Italian , has also been found.
In 1860, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made the earliest known intelligible sound recording, capturing a man singing the French folk song "Au clair de la lune." This recording went largely unnoticed and was overshadowed by Thomas Edison 's phonograph , which famously recorded " Mary Had a Little Lamb ."
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"Clair de lune" (Fauré), setting of the Paul Verlaine poem by Fauré, from his Two Songs, Op. 46 (1887) Clairs de lune, a set of four piano pieces, each titled "Claire de Lune", by Abel Decaux (1907) Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven), Op. 27, No. 2 (1801), the "Moonlight" piano sonata by Beethoven, known in French as Sonate au Clair de lune