On "L'arbre est dans ses feuilles" - (2017) ![](images/01_Little_Green_Dot.gif)
for piano
This "Chanson à accumulation" or cumulative song has refrain and chorus, the choruses lengthening as more details are added to the cumulative picture.
The refrain in French: "L'arbre est dans ses feuilles, / Malurons, maluré / L'arbre est dans ses feuilles, / Malurons dondé." In English, "The tree is in full bloom, / Hoorah, hooray, / The tree is in full bloom, / Hoorah, dunday!" The choruses added together tell: "In the heart, there is love / The heart is in the bird / The bird is in the egg / The egg is in the nest / The nest is in the hole / The hole is in the knot / The knot is in the branch /The branch is in the tree."
This piano study takes the refrain throughout as subject and toys with its repetitions in varying registers and domains.
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3 pages, circa 3' 30" - an MP3 demo is here: ![](images/01_demo.gif)
The score is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer. Click on the graphic below for this piano score.
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On "L'arbre est dans ses feuilles"
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