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While busy composing "L'Enfant et les sortilèges," Maurice Ravel chose to set this poem by Pierre de Ronsard to music, simple and sweet, also moving. "Amelette, Ronsardelette, mignonette, doucelette, very dear hostess of my body, you come down there... Passerby... do not disturb my rest." The extraordinary harmony consisting exclusively of perfect fifths gives a magnificent transparency to the melody and chords. Entrusted to the instrumentation of Michel Mathias on the flute and clarinet, a tranquil melody proceeding in parallel fifths accompanies the vocal recitative. Then, after a progressively lively part, the cello makes its appearance, accompanying in a calm atmosphere the return of the initial melody. The piano will only intervene on the final chord, a chord formed of seven superimposed fifths. Automatic translation.

7 pages : the download includes the score (3 pages), a one part for flute and clarinet (2 pages) and a one part for cello (2 pages).