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Dutilleux, Henri : Bergerie

Work Overview

Music ID : 18253
Composition Year:1946 
Publication Year:1946
First Publisher:Henry Lemoine
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:Various works
Total Playing Time:1 min 00 sec
Copyright:Under Copyright Protection

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Author : Hirano, Takatoshi

Last Updated: February 20, 2014
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

Dutilleux (1916-2013) composed this educational miniature early in his career. In 1946, immediately after World War II, and just one year before Dutilleux achieved his first major success with his representative work, the Piano Sonata (1947), he received a commission from Henri Lemoine publishing house. He composed this piece as one of the works for the pedagogical collection Jardin d’Enfants (Children's Garden), which featured piano pieces by contemporary composers. The title, 'Bergerie' (Pastoral/Shepherd's Song), refers to a genre of song by medieval French court poets, a type of idyll that depicts the cheerful exchanges between shepherds. The piece is in ABA form. Section A, in D major, is divided into three subsections. Section B, in contrast to A, is characterized by prominent legato. It begins in G major, but soon features alternating 3/4 and 2/4 meters, and an increase in flats, leading to the Mixolydian mode. Finally, the theme of A returns, also in the Mixolydian mode, and the piece concludes by returning to D major. Notably, in the first edition, the first note in the left hand (measure 5, beat 2) is marked with the fingering 2, 5.

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