Attributs

Attributs (FR) Attributes. Poulenc's setting (1924 / 25, Poèmes de Ronsard #1) for voice and piano of a poem, originally titled »Odelette XV« (Little Ode 15) from Le quatrième livre des Odes (The Fourth Book of Odes, 1555) by Ronsard. The poem refers to a myth that one day the gods choose which trees they would like to protect. Poulenc changes line 2 from »Aux chevre-pieds les forêts« (To the goat-footed [belong] the forests) to »Aux dieux-bouquins les forêts.« He may have set a variant…