Cypress Choral Music Soleils Couchants - Verlaine/Ingari - SATB

Author/Composer:

INGARI, ROBERT

Instrumentation:

SATB A CAP

Model #:

CP1168

Lyrics: Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Music: Robert Ingari
Format: Choral Octavo
Voicing: SATB a cappella

Soleils couchants is a four-part a cappella setting of one of Paul Verlaines most famous poems from the collection Poemes saturiens published in 1866. In his setting of this poem, Robert Ingari uses a simple form where the alto melody accompanied by a vocal ostinato in the soprano, tenor and bass alternates with a four-part section where the melody is taken by the sopranos. The rhythmic repetition of the ostinato creates a background for the melancholic melody of the altos.