Exposition

Vers d'autres cieux à d'autres amours (2022)

Maria Palma
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As a harpist I wanted to find the relation between Gabriel Fauré’s piece for solo harp “Une châtelaine en sa tour” and Verlaine’s poem “Une sainte en son auréole”, from whose verse the piece takes its title, to understand more the composer’s intentions and improve my interpretation. It is quite an enigmatic topic, because Fauré never explained how (or if) he was inspired by the poem for its piece. After trying to collect as much information as I could to find the answer, I realized that there isn’t an answer: I couldn’t pretend to explain something so intimate and deep such as the composer’s intentions in a piece if the composer himself didn’t give any explanation. But I also play a role in the interpretation of the piece as a performer, and instead of searching for outer facts and information, I realized that I can find answers in the sphere of my subjectivity, exploring my personal way of including poetry in my interpretation. Therefore I created a practice plan which involved the poem in mental training techniques, and I recorded myself before and after that, noticing what changed. Thanks to this research I developed a personal way of involving poetry in practice and performing, I discovered new mental training techniques from which I benefit as a musician, and I have more awareness of the complexity of connecting two worlds that share common qualities but that exist on their own and have their beauty in their independent, pure essence.
typeresearch exposition
keywordspoetry, Faure, harp, imagination, External focus, Imagery
date10/02/2022
published11/07/2022
last modified11/07/2022
statuslimited publication
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copyrightMaria Palma
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageMiddle English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1524206/1524207
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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1525796 Micheline-Kahn https://interlude.hk/faure-and-the-french-harp/micheline-kahn/ CC BY-NC-ND
1525808 Dedication of Fauré to Micheline Kahn collection J. M. Damase CC BY-NC-ND
1525829 Micheline-Kahn Maria Palma All rights reserved
1525937 Fauré’s drawing of Verlaine Graham Johnson All rights reserved
1525949 Verlaine sitting in a bar Graham Johnson All rights reserved
1525962 photo faure newzick.com All rights reserved
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1525990 Une sainte en son auréole Mondadori Libri S.P.A. All rights reserved
1526037 score chatelaine Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526046 chatelaine p.1 Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526056 score chatelaine 2 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526058 score chatelaine 3 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526066 chatelaine p.4 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526080 chatelainep. 4 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526082 chatelaine p.5 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526090 chatelaine p.6 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526092 chatelaine p.7 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526169 imagery chatelaine 1 Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526179 imagery chatelaine 2 Durand Edition Musicales All rights reserved
1526182 imagery chatelaine 3 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526190 imagery chatelaine 2 lum Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526192 imagery chatelaine 3 lum Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526200 imagery chatelaine 4 Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526211 imagery chatelaine 5 Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526213 imagery chatelaine 6 Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526220 imagery chatelaine 7 Durand Editions Musicales All rights reserved
1526226 imagery chatelaine 8 Durand editions musicales All rights reserved
1526261 practice log 1 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526264 practice log 2 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526273 practice log 1 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526275 practice log 2 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526300 practice log 3 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526302 practice log 4 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526305 practice log 5 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526309 practice log 6 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526312 practice log 7 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526346 sing and gesture video 1 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526367 sing and gesture video 1 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526406 sing and gesture preview Maria Palma CC BY-NC-ND
1526412 sing and gesture video 2 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526503 Chatelaine recording n.1 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526518 Chatelaine recording n.2 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526594 Chatelaine 1- fragment 1 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526621 Chatelaine 2 - fragment 1 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526659 Chatelaine 1-fragment 2 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526683 Chatelaine 2-fragment 2 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526715 Chatelaine 1-fragment 3 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526724 Chatelaine 2-fragment 3 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526745 Chatelaine 1-4 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526751 Chatelaine 2- fragment 4 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526761 Chatelaine 1-fragment 5 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1526791 Chatelaine 2-fragment 5 Maria Palma All rights reserved
1546767 Une sainte en son auréole Mondadori Libri S.P.A. All rights reserved

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