Each concerns a poet, further described in the " Aubade " as an " old " poet, calling to mind how Satie categorized composers as either " poets " or " pundits . " Robert Orledge has proposed that the texts for the first two pieces are " observations " of the dedicatees.
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He received 25000 Francs for " Aubade ", which he wrote for one of their balls at Place des �tats-Unis where it premiered on 18 June 1929 . " Le Bal Masqu?", inspired by Max Jacob's " Le Laboratoire Central ", was written for a private celebration on 20 April 1932 at the municipal theatre in Hy�res.
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The sheet music specifies two guitars however, several of the duets can be performed by flute and guitar and versions have been transcribed for harmonica for five of the pieces, namely " Aubade, Arioso in Blue, Rimse, Portrait of Miss . L and Velvet Waltz ", although the composer states that these pieces can be played in any order with any instrument to supplement the guitar.
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The nature-loving poet of " Idylle " contemplates a tree-lined creek under sun and moonlight but takes no pleasure in it because, he confesses, " my heart is very small . " The morning serenade of " Aubade " originally bore the subtitle " A fianc?beneath the balcony of his fianc�e ", and could well allude to Dukas'courtship of Suzanne Pereyra, 18 years his junior, whom he finally married in 1916.
25.
The article is based mainly on news sources, and does not use the books that have been written on the day, such as ISBN 9789025403485, ISBN 9789076591179, and some of these books in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek . ( Those are just some examples; I haven't done a thorough search for sources either . ) As a consequence, the article omits some important aspects of the celebration, such as the " aubade ", and drinking " oranjebitter ".
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As others have pointed out, and as Furness in his'Variorum Edition'of " Cymbeline " makes abundantly clear, " This present song is the supreme crown of all aubades . . . " The Schirmer edition of Liszt's transcription for solo piano clarifies the context with the title of " Morgenst�ndchen " ('morning serenade'), and the German title of Schubert's song would be more accurately rendered in English as " Aubade ".
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The shorter poems in the book, in addition to the title poem, include " Aubade ", " Unpredictable but Providential ", " Address to the Beasts ", " Archaeology ", " No, Plato, No ", " Nocturne ", " A Thanksgiving ", and " Lullaby " ( " The din of work is subdued "; titled in other editions with a title found in Auden's typescripts, " A Lullaby ", which distinguishes it from a different earlier poem titled " Lullaby " ).
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Larkin also appears on several audio poetry anthologies : " The Jupiter Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry Part III " ( JUR 00A8 ), issued in 1963 and featuring " An Arundel Tomb " and " Mr Bleaney " ( this same recording was issued in the United States in 1967 on the Folkways record label as " Anthology of 20th Century English Poetry Part III " ( FL9870 ) ); " The Poet Speaks " record 8 ( Argo PLP 1088 ), issued in 1967 and featuring " Wants ", " Coming ", " Nothing to be Said ", " Days " and " Dockery and Son "; " On Record " ( YA3 ), issued in 1974 by Yorkshire Arts Association and featuring " Here ", " Days ", " Next, Please ", " Wedding-Wind ", " The Whitsun Weddings ", " XXX ", " XIII " ( these last two poems from " The North Ship " ); and " Douglas Dunn and Philip Larkin ", issued in 1984 by Faber and Faber ( A Faber Poetry cassette ), featuring Larkin reading 13 poems including, for the first time on a recording, " Aubade ".
