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The French mélodie arose above all from the encounter between composers and important representatives of French poetry. It therefore constitutes, in the words of Roland Barthes, the "champ (ou chant) de célébration
de la langue française cultivée"' [the field (or song) of the celebration of the cultivated French language] and is "clearly different from the German song. This concerns not only the structure (although it gradually freed itself from the concept of strophic repetition), but even the spirit itself, since it very soon detached itself from that of the folk song to become instead one of the most 'aristocratic' forms of music." Charles Koechlin, the author of these lines, admits, however, that this definition conceals a variety of forms and styles, and the present recording takes this fact into account.
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