Ex. 14-9: Green
Claude Debussy
Key: G♭/E♭mTime: 6/8Ariettes oubliées (L. 60)
No. 5 from Debussy's Ariettes oubliées (Forgotten Songs, L. 60), a cycle of six songs composed in 1886–87, setting poems by Paul Verlaine. The cycle was dedicated to the soprano Mary Garden.
The same poem was also set by Fauré as No. 5 of his Cinq mélodies "de Venise" (Op. 58). (Ex. 12-8: Green by Gabriel Fauré)