C013 My cherry
Audio clip: My cherry
1 Background
1962, after his first 33 laps 25 cm Alain Barrière released a new EP with 45 laps 4 songs. Among these, My cherry , title translated into English cerezo Mi.
2 Lyrics
5 stanzas, followed by a final verse isolated. The three stanzas
odd 1, 3 and 5 to 8, while the two stanzas 2 and 4 pairs that do not have 7.
For each line, the number of feet varies, usually there are 6 or 7.
3 Music
The song begins (and ends) by a series of Chu-Chu) how American variety of the 50s, then chained the orchestra. The music is very fluid but marked with numerous repetitions of syncope associated with cherry. In the diction of Alain Barrier, there are some special emphases, with strong tonic accent on certain consonants, for example fine-di- man tasks. Choirs who Ouu-Ouu-Ouu between choruses. Violins for the second and fourth verses. Of la-la-lai supported on trumpet how Latin America between the second and third verse and between the fourth and fifth.
4 Analysis of first degree
On first reading, it is about a young girl called Marianne and a cherry tree in bloom, and the relationship between the tree and the woman is far from jumping the eyes. I confess that after having played two or three times, I left this Lyrics aside, considering it a bit condescending as an early work awkward, if not a little spoiled, ... and I fear not to be the first ...
course, a cherry tree in bloom is one of the most beautiful symbols of spring. The bloom lasts only one week, but what magnificence ago our world cherry, all white, so white and we no longer see the branches. The leaves grow next, once the petals have fallen and the flowers are only the beginning of the fruit, waiting to go two months later pick the ripe fruits and make earrings like The cherry season. There are also ornamental cherry trees that grow in Japan and which are the subject of a cult on the part of the population. The ritual of Hanami (flower viewing in Japanese) is to go picnicking in public parks under the cherry blossoms. We do not forget to drink ... Progression of flowering cherry trees from the far south to far north, is followed day by day, and when the national meteorological agency is mistaken for three days in advance of flowering, it becomes a national tragedy.
In the analogy is to reduce the life of a man to one year from January to December, a recurrent theme in poetry and very often found in texts by Alain Barrier, the rapid flowering cherry trees symbolize the passage from adolescence to the senses and the emergence of sensuality which disturbs the physiology very quiet so far of the child. This upheaval is reflected in the song The cherry blossoms are white sung by Gilbert Becaud in 1968: The cherry blossoms are white / The birds are happy / ... / Is this normal, Mom, / This wonderful torment / Who m 'shames all the time, ah?
5 Analysis second degree
I took the trouble to write this text, re-listen to this song to return a text a little bit in all directions, it occurred to me that the poet was personified in the cherry blossoms. Most of the time, the woman is personified in flower, the rose as often so aptly wrote Pierre de Ronsard ( Darling, let's see if the rose ...) But here is the original personification and unusual: it is surprising. First, it is the poet who is personified, and then he sees himself in a tree ... Our poet is painted so in the guise of a cherry tree in bloom, dressed in a white robe in his fine coat of fine Sundays. And we love the drama in 5 steps between Marianne and the poet-cherry:
In the first verse comes love.
In the second verse, the love affair reached its climax, everything is wonderful, with smiles and kisses and nature festival.
In the third stanza, love is gone and our cherry-poet has lost its glitter white flowers. The fourth stanza
, Marianne leaves her former lover without a gesture or a regret.
In the fifth and final stanza, our cherry-poet laments his loneliness thinking of the beautiful on the roadside .
And a tree, as big or strong as it is, is no defense to a nice that after launching force smiles and kisses changes his mind and went looking elsewhere for other adventures ... How could he follow or seek from the wide world? And sadness, our cherry-poet has lost all flowers are ...
The song begins so gay is normal, the colors still love the world of love in pink or pastel blue. But in the last three verses, I find a contradiction between a text that becomes increasingly dark and the music remains very strangely cheerful. In the final touch, Marianne is gone, which has a dramatic side, our poet sings like a cry of joy. Either there is something I did not understand, or else, our love was not involved at all in his relationship with Marianne, and it's not a drama ...
6 Sources
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami
http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/0903...upv9mc.asp
http: / / www.aujourdhuilejapon.com/actuali...s-6233.asp
http://www.aujourdhuilejapon.com/informa...70.asp?1=1
http://www .musikiwi.com/paroles/gilbert-...25206.html
http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiq..._rose.html
Jacques-Deric
Barriérophile heterodox and iconoclastic
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