Editing Song cycle (section)

==Song cycles in France==
The six songs of [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]]'s ''[[Les nuits d'été]]'' (1841), first published with piano accompaniment but later orchestrated, is a notable early example of the French song cycle.<ref>Bernac, Pierre (1970). The Interpretation of French Song. New York – Washington: Praeger Publishers. p36.</ref> French cycles reached a pinnacle in [[Gabriel Fauré|Fauré]]'s ''[[La bonne chanson (Fauré)|La bonne chanson]]'' (Verlaine) of the early 1890s, ''[[La chanson d'Ève]]'', premiered complete in 1910, and ''[[L'horizon chimérique]]'' (1921). [[Emmanuel Chabrier|Chabrier]]'s four 'Barnyard songs' (1889) "introduced a new note into contemporary French music" and prefigured Ravel's ''[[Histoires naturelles]]''.<ref>Myers, Rollo. ''Emmanuel Chabrier and his circle.'' Associated University Presses, Cranbury, 1970, p. 90-91.</ref> [[Francis Poulenc|Poulenc]] produced a long line of song cycles, from ''Le Bestiaire'' (1919), the ''Poèmes de [[Pierre de Ronsard|Ronsard]]'' of 1925, ''[[Chansons gaillardes|Chansons Gaillardes]]'' (anonymous 17th-century texts) of the following year, ''Quatre poèmes de [[Guillaume Apollinaire]]'' (1931), ''Tel jour telle nuit'' (poems by [[Paul Éluard]]), 1937, ''[[Banalités (Poulenc)|Banalités]]'' (poems by Apollinaire, 1940), to his last, ''[[La Courte Paille]]'' (1960) - seven songs in eight minutes.
 
''[[Poèmes pour Mi]]'', ''[[Chants de Terre et de Ciel]]'' and ''[[Harawi (Tristan Trilogy)|Harawi]]'' by [[Olivier Messiaen|Messiaen]], ''Paroles tissées'' and ''[[Chantefleurs et Chantefables]]'' by [[Witold Lutosławski|Lutosławski]] (only an honorary Frenchman) as well as ''[[Correspondances]]'' and ''[[Le temps l'horloge]]'' by [[Henri Dutilleux|Dutilleux]] continued the French cycle tradition in the later 20th century.