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Les Poetes En Chansons/ Music And The Great Peots 19512
"From Rutebeuf to Aragon and Prvert, and including Villon, Baudelaire, Verlaine and Desnos, this anthology confirms the musical potential of French verse. Many composers, not the least of them being Faur, Duparc, Debussy, Poulenc, Kosma, Ferr, Brassens or Gainsbourg, added their own images in music by weaving melody and harmony into the poems that spoke to their sensibilities. In so doing, as Aragon himself wrote, it was in this way that poetry, doubled with the magic of music, made it possible for us all to read by ear. Philippe LESAGE"