A major new critical edition of important standard repertory with 61 songs in 2 volumes. All songs are presented only in the original key, with no transpositions. All the song cycles and groupings appear in one of the two volumes.Years in preparation, this edition is based on the most reliable sources available in the world, with most of the research centered at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Each song is presented with a line-by-line translation andfull critical notes citing the research as it applies to specifics in the songs. Also includes a glossary of French terms.

Contents: Deux romances (Romance: L'ëme evaporee, Les cloches) - Lesangelus - Trois melodies de Paul Verlaine (La mer est plus belle, Le son du cor, L'echelonnement des haies) - Fetes galantes, serie I (En sourdine, Fantoches, Clair de lune) -Proses lyriques (De reve, De greve, De fleurs, De soir) - Trois chansons de Bilitis (La flte de Pan, La chevelure, Le tombeau des Naïades) - Dans le jardin - Fet es galantes, serie II(Les ingenus, Le faune, Colloque sentimental) - Trois chansons de France (Rondel: Le temps a laissie, La grotte, Rondel: Pour ce que Palisance) - Le promenoir des deux amants (Crois mon conseil,chere Climene, Je tremble en voyant ton visage) - Trois ballads de François Villon (Ballade de Villon a s'amye, Ballade que Villon feit a la requeste de sa mere, Ballade des femmes deParis) - Trois poemes de Stephane Mallarme (Soupir, Placet futile, Evantali) - Noël des en