Ex. 4-8: Barcarolle
Gabriel Fauré
Key: B♭/GmTime: 6/83 Songs (Op. 7)
No. 3 of Fauré's Trois Mélodies (Op. 7), set to a poem by Marc Monnier. Published in 1878. True to the barcarolle tradition — a song of Venetian gondoliers — the music sways in 6/8 time.