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Thread #58242   Message #926587
Posted By: dermod in salisbury
05-Apr-03 - 04:56 AM
Thread Name: Chansons d'amour francais
Subject: RE: Chansons d'amour francais
Hymne a l'amour is a four beats to the bar song, and as often in French songs,has a three part structure: opening section called refrain, middle section called couplet (from the rhyming scheme), and concluding refrain in the same form as the opening. The chords are:
first refain - G/B7/,Em/Em7/,Am/Am7/,D/D7/,G/Gaug/,C/Cm Cm6,G Em Am Am7,D7///,G/B7/,Em/Emaj7/,Am/Am7/,D/D7/,G/Gaug/,C/Cm Cm6,G///; (Couplet)Em B7 Em/,C D7 G/,Csharp dim C7 B7/,G D7 G/,Em Am B7/,Csharp minor/B/,Em Emaj7 Em7/,Em6 C Em/, Fsharp7/B7/,Am7 D7 Gm7 Cm7, Fsharp minor7flat5 B7 Em Em7,Am/D13/; (then repeat as for opening refrain).

I can't help you with the tune in this format. But if you listen to the midi above, or a recording, then start Le Ciel Bleu d c b (the last note on 'bleu' being the first note of the first bar proper, then 'sur nout peut s'ecrouler (notes b b dsharp, f,a, g) you should be able to develop from their by ear.

Best of luck. If all that seems daunting, then it may be back to frere jacques as wisely suggested above.

Dermod