From The Column, Blessing And Debussy To See French Art Songs

The development of French artistic song can be dated back to the latter of 19th century. Faure and Debussy were two important composers who laid strong foundation for French artistic song and created large amount excellent works meanwhile. Due to be affected by the Romance, Parnassian, Symbolisme in literature, Faure's creation developed in a proper sequence way ,Different styles and features of song and characteristics appear separately. As to Debussy, he brought the impressionism of painting into his music ,which stress the metre in verse of the language, the melody always changes with delicate change of the lyrics. For the singers who study the French artistic songs, the both musician's music are must be known and acquired.The poets of Parnassian and Symbolisme played important role through the developing course of French artistic songs. The value of a song is essentially up to its lyric. Debussy and Faure borrowed a large amount of excellent lyrics from Parnassian ang symbolisme which made their creation new and excellent.The vowels in French, having two contrasting voices defined as "bright vowel" and "dark vowel" which makes the lyric high, low and power like music, are the factors affecting the vocality in French romance, that is to say French original music nature. During the creation of French artistic songs, the attention was paid to the contrasting vowels, the shape of the month in pronunciation of vowels and the coordination between the language and tune. This is why French music sounds beautiful and smooth.But the theory in term of singing the French artistic songs, I think, the singer should understand deeply to the artistic conception and intension of the poesy first. In addition, because French itself is a kind of accent and few languages, singers must have good slickand sly skill (legato ) , make the melody present sparkling and crystal-clear color . And a soft, clean, steady sound is the indispensable condition naturally. French difficult for a lot of singers to overcome skill of sympathetic response of nasal vowel, and French vocal music school, also emphasize that" breathes the law naturally " in " singing style of gentle air ", and " sympathetic response of nasal cavity " and " the first of sympathetic response " one is mixed.Faure and Debussy, two kinds of different styles of creating at artistic songs developing stage that represent the latter half of the 19th century and French at the beginning of the 20th century. In the development of the style of the songs, there are close relations between the song and lyrics, the poem wind of France's literature reform and innovation is exactly a main reason for guiding French artistic songs development. And Faure and Debussy, adopts this kind of poesy, the pioneer promoting the French artistic songs to emerge and develop. After them, the French artistic songs march toward the brand-new field of creation even more.