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Music and Letters 2003 84(1):55-83; doi:10.1093/ml/84.1.55
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The Triumph of Diversity: Theories of French Accentuation and Their Influence on Verdi's French Operas

Andreas Giger1

1 Louisiana State University

This study investigates a variety of primary sources dealing with French poetic rhythm and concludes that the variety of approaches discussed in these sources must be kept in mind when evaluating a composer's setting of French verse. French poetic theory discusses practices such as scanning verse in iambs and trochees regardless of interior accents; determining the number of accents based on the metre of the verse; and observing only the most essential accents based on syntactic considerations. Focusing on Verdi's French operas, this study examines the relationship between these possibilities and the melodic style.


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