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In 2008, a phonautograph paper recording made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville of "Au clair de la lune" on 9 April 1860, was digitally converted to sound by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This one-line excerpt of the song is the earliest recognizable record of the human voice and the earliest recognizable record ...
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.
As I understand it, the lyrics are: Au clair de la lune, Mon ami, Pierrot, Prete-moi ta plume Pour ecrire un mot! Ma chandelle est morte, Je n'ai plus de feu; Ouvre-moi ta porte, Pour l'amour de Dieu. Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit: "Je n'ai pas de plume, Je suis dans mon lit; Va chez la voisine, Je crois qu'elle y est; Car dans la cuisine,
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.
Later, researchers discovered that a misinterpretation of a reference frequency had led to the playback speed being doubled. Once corrected, it became apparent that the recording was likely of a man, probably of the inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville himself, singing the French folk song "Au clair de la lune" at a slow pace. [4]
"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
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, Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau, Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.
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.