Placet futile

Placet futile (FR) Futile Petition. Ravel's's setting (1913, Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé #2) for voice and piano of a poem by Mallarmé. (See above entry.) The song, finished in May 1913, is dedicated to composer Florent Schmitt (1870–1958). » Ravel writes: « » I have corrected ›Placet futile,‹ even after thinking it finished. I now realize my audacity in trying to interpret musically this sonnet. It was necessary that the melodic contour, the modulations, and the rhythms be as precisely…