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OBOETRY – French poetry played in melody: a poetical & vocal approach to French 'mélodie' on oboe (2022)

Anna Marieke Zijlstra

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This interdisciplinary research presents a contextualisation and musico-literary analysis on the French poem and art song “Colloque sentimental” from Paul Verlaine and Claude Debussy, followed by a full-fledged transcription of this ‘mélodie’ for English horn, expanding the existing oboe repertoire. In the annotation and interpretation of “Colloque sentimental”, a poetical and vocal approach has been applied, aiming to communicate a deeper understanding of the ‘poésie’ and ‘mélodie’ for performance practices. The studying and singing of the song resulted in an experimentation and reflection of playing the ‘mélodie’ on English horn, a process of musically translating the poetry into an instrumental transcription that takes into account the particularities and possibilities of the language and voice as well as these of the instrument in question, with the aim of providing useful material for fellow oboists and those who are interested. For example, it was demonstrated during the research process how the understanding of literary and vocal phrases enhances horizontal and legato phrasing on English horn. Consequently, an important challenge in this case consisted of writing the transcription in a feasible notation that would be playable for any oboist, even without prior knowledge of the French language and poetry, hopefully leading to a poetical and purposeful performance of the piece.
typeresearch exposition
keywordssentimental, Verlaine, Debussy, 20th century, 20th century music, oboe, French, poetry, art song, English horn, mélodie, voice, Transcription, Colloque sentimental, poem
date22/11/2021
published09/05/2022
last modified09/05/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightAnna Marieke Zijlstra
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1432269/1433348
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue1. Master Research Projects


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1432296 Colloque Sentimental met zang Anna Marieke Zijlstra CC BY-NC-ND
1434354 Colloque Sentimental Naked I dunno All rights reserved
1434357 Colloque Sentimental . All rights reserved
1434408 Screenshot 2021-11-22 at 23.47.42 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434459 Fête Champêtre - copy Attributed to Jean-Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721) All rights reserved
1434637 Screenshot 2021-11-23 at 02.07.01 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434691 Audio 1- Molles als twee lettergrepen AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434702 Audio 2- Molles als één lettergreep AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434705 Audio 3- fragment ‘molles’ met overgang naar volgende zin AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434713 Audio 4- ‘paroles’ maat 12-13, oude notatie AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434715 Audio 5- ‘paroles’, maat 12-13, timing voorin, nieuwe notatie AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434717 Audio 6- “Dans le vieux parc” met snelle begin achtsten AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434719 Audio 7- “Dans le vieux parc” met tenuto achtste eerste tel AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434721 Audio 8- “Deux spectres” verticaal gespeeld, losse triolen AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434723 Audio 9- “Deux spectres” met richting en meer tenuto AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434725 Audio 10- “Deux spectres”, met richting maar iets losser aangezet AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434727 Audio 11- “Toujours vois-tu”, “Non”, “Ah!... bonheur indicible” AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434729 Audio 12- “Ah! Les beaux jours” nieuw sfzp AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434731 Audio 13- “Ah!” meer tempo, c’est possible AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434733 36 lang fragment AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434735 41 2de lange fragment amz CC BY-NC-ND
1434736 41 2de lange fragment AMZ CC BY-NC-ND
1434754 Ah! les beaux jours,versie 1 audio 11 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434756 Ah! les beaux jours, audio 12, versie 2 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434758 Deux spectres, versie 1, audio 8 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434760 Deux spectres, versie 2 (audio 9) Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434762 Molles aangezet, eerste versie, audio 1 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434764 Molles onder boog, niet aangezet, audio 2 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434767 versie 1 dans le vieux parc audio 6 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434769 Versie 2 dans le vieux parc, audio 7 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434771 paroles, versie 1, audio 4 en dus ook 41 uit mn hoofd Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1434774 Paroles, versie 2, audio 5 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532109 Fragment 13: "Toujours vois-tu mon âme en rêve?---Non." Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532116 Fragment 12, "Toujours vois-tu mon âme en rêve?" Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532129 Fragment 12 &13, "Ah! Les beaux jours de bonheur indicible" Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532144 Fragment 12 & 13: "Ah! Les beaux jours de bonheur indicible" Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532147 Fragment 12 & 13, "Ah! Les beaux jours de bonheur indicible" Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532162 Fragment 12, "Ah!" without accent Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532172 Fragment 14, "Ah! Les beaux jours de bonheur indicible" Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532175 Fragment 14, "Ah! Les beaux jours de bonheur indicible" Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532178 Poetic annotation and analysis Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532180 Poetic annotation and analysis Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1532207 Pelléas et Mélisande, opéra Debussy, cor anglais Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536496 Chanson d'automne, Verlaine, composition Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536706 Clair de lune - Gabriel Fauré Eindexamen hobo Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536709 Anna Marieke Zijlstra.mp4 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536759 "Dans le vieux parc...", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536764 "Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé", English horn version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536769 "Leurs yeux sont morts...", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536771 "Leurs yeux sont morts...", English horn version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536784 "Deux spectres", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536787 "Deux spectres", English horn version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536793 "Te souvient-il?", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536799 "Te souvient-il?", version 1 EH Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536803 "Te souvient-il?", version 2 EH Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536831 "Pourquoi voulez-vous donc?", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536835 "Pourquoi voulez-vous donc?", English horn version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536847 "Ton coeur bat-il?", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536861 "Ton coeur bat-il?", EH version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536864 "Non", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1536867 "Non", EH version, without vibrato Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1537316 "Ah! Les beaux jours", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1537323 "Ah! Les beaux jours", English horn version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1537331 "C'est possible", English horn version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1537428 "Qu'il était bleu, le ciel, et grand l'espoir!", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1537431 "Qu'il était bleu, le ciel, et grand l'espoir!", EH version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1537446 "Tels ils marchaient", voice version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1537449 "Tels ils marchaient", English horn version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1538506 Reciting the poem "Colloque sentimental", own version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1538535 "Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé" afbeelding 1 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1538537 "Dans le vieux parc solitaire et glacé" afbeelding 1 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1540282 "Ah! Les beaux jours" with breathing and rest Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1540286 A new "molles" with other dynamics Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1540290 "Deux spectres" with new dynamics Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1540298 "Ah! Les beaux jours" with breathing and rest Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1540301 "Deux spectres" with new dynamics Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1540303 Sentimental colloquy Salvador Dali All rights reserved
1540673 "Mon rêve familier" from Henriëtte Bosmans Henriëtte Bosmans, Donemus All rights reserved
1541474 "Qu'il était bleu, le ciel, et grand l'espoir!", EH version Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1542228 Singing in Studio 6, during recording Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1542232 Speaking and singing in Studio 6, Amare Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1542239 Playing English horn, recording in Studio 6 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1542248 Sound Engineer and oboist working together Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1542276 Transcription of 'Colloque sentimental' for cor anglais by Anna Marieke Zijlstra Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1542286 Transcription of 'Colloque sentimental' for cor anglais by Anna Marieke Zijlstra Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1542632 Transcription of Colloque sentimental for English horn, Anna Marieke Zijlstra Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1543475 "Motif du rossignol" from 'En Sourdine' and 'Colloque sentimental', comparison Peter Kaminsky All rights reserved
1543621 Poem annotation and analysis, Anna Marieke Zijlstra Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1543714 Marie Nicole Lemieux - Fêtes Galantes II (Poèmes de Paul Verlaine) - Colloque Sentimental Maire Nicole Lemieux All rights reserved
1543724 Pierre Bernac sings "Colloque sentimental" Pierre Bernac All rights reserved
1543733 Fêtes galantes, L. 114, Book 2_ III. Colloque sentimental (Second Version) - All rights reserved
1543739 Fêtes galantes, Book 2, L. 80_ Fetes galantes, Book 2_ No. 3. Colloque sentimental - All rights reserved
1543744 Fêtes galantes, L. 114, Book 2_ III. Colloque sentimental n All rights reserved
1543756 Fêtes galantes, L. 114, Book 2 - III. Colloque sentimental (Second Version) - All rights reserved
1543767 Jane Bathori sings "Colloque sentimental" (1929) Jane Bathori All rights reserved
1543769 Pierre Bernac sings "Colloque sentimental" Pierre Bernac All rights reserved
1543849 "Gendered" harmonic reduction Peter Kaminsky All rights reserved
1543897 Nightingale motif Peter Kaminsky All rights reserved
1544072 Two specters dialogue, Colloque sentimental Claude Debussy All rights reserved
1544080 Specters dialogue, Colloque sentimental Claude Debussy All rights reserved
1544083 Specters dialogue, Colloque sentimental Claude Debussy All rights reserved
1545131 Test Button Johanna Calcines CC BY-NC-ND
1545137 Button Johanna Calcines All rights reserved
1545179 Illustration about "Colloque sentimental" André Dignimont All rights reserved
1545183 "Fêtes galantes" by Paul Verlaine Paul Verlaine All rights reserved
1545190 "Mon rêve familier" from Henriëtte Bosmans Henriëtte Bosmans, Donemus All rights reserved
1545278 Test button 2 Johanna Calcines CC BY-NC-ND
1545279 Test buttons Johanna Calcines CC BY-NC-ND
1545282 Test button 2 Johanna Calcines All rights reserved
1545284 Test buttons Johanna Calcines All rights reserved
1546071 Interpretatie mélodie met Elly Ameling Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1546172 Test 2 Johanna Calcines All rights reserved
1546560 fete-galante-in-a-wooded-landscape-antoine-watteau Antoine Watteau All rights reserved
1547666 Breath after 'nom' and before 'toujours', bar 29 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547672 Breath after 'Ah!', bar 34 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547698 Breath, bar 44 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547787 Triplets in "Tels ils marchaient" Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547799 'Bonheur', fragment 2 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547804 'Bonheur', fragment 1 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547876 Tick in bar 47 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547878 Tick in bar 47 Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547886 Pourquoi, linking Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547888 Pourquoi, linking Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547891 Souvienne, linking Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved
1547893 Souvienne, linking Anna Marieke Zijlstra All rights reserved

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