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Updated: June 7, 2025
All the fear and love, all the anguished tenderness which had torn her heart through those years was written on the stippled disc, so deeply had it touched her life. Denver put them all on, the best records he had by singers of world renown, and then at the end he put on the "Barcarolle," the duet from the "Love Tales of Hoffmann."
The left hand is soft too, but the first beat should be slightly accented, the second not; the first is positive, the second negative. Herein lies the idea of the barcarolle, the ebb and flow, the undulation of each measure. "Begin the first measure very softly, the second measure a trifle louder, the third louder still, the fourth falling off again.
In the first book "Exile," "A Neglected Heart," "Bisclavaret," "The Fountain of Tears," "Barcarolle," make a new mixture of the fair and strange in meaning, a new valuation of the eternal possibilities of language in sound. That there was not a little that is morbid in him as perhaps in the school generally sane criticism cannot deny.
She had sung the "Barcarolle" again, on that other night, when he had stepped out so boldly from the shadows; but it was the first time that she loved him for it, when he was still a total stranger and had come just to hear her sing. There was more that she said to him and when he had to go she smiled again and gave him her hand, but he did not suggest a kiss.
The next dance was beginning; it was the Barcarolle out of Hoffman, which made Helen beat her toe in time to it; but she felt that after such a compliment it was impossible to get up and go, and, besides being amused, she was really flattered, and the honesty of his conceit attracted her. She suspected that he was not happy, and was sufficiently feminine to wish to receive confidences.
But it was to Rubinstein, not Ivan, that she addressed herself: "What has this young man been about, Anton? Your style is certainly very much improved!" "Your Highness, it was not my barcarolle you heard, but a clever bit of improvisation on my theme my own development having proved, no doubt, too much for Monsieur Gregoriev's technique."
A moment Allan sat silent, gazing at the girl, and then he smiled. "It lives in you again, the past!" he cried. "In you the world shall be made new once more! Beatrice, when I last heard that 'Barcarolle' it was sung by Farrar and Scotti at the Metropolitan, in the winter of 1913. And now you waken the whole scene in me again!
What did one noble matter, less or more? "But it's a gloomy barcarolle that a dead man sings!" "And one that hath not died his own death!" a woman answered under her breath, as she crossed herself with a shudder. The wind inflated the empty folds of the crimson robe that draped the bier, carrying it almost into the water, as the gondolas glided away from the Piazzetta.
His gondola touched hers; she flung aside the curtains and leaped into the boat with him. But as she dreamed, there floated over the water the sound of song. This was no unusual sound on the Canale Grande, but the music was not Italian; it was no languishing barcarolle, such as Venetian lovers were wont to sing to their mistresses; the air was foreign the words were French.
Of the other "Water Scenes," there is a shimmering "Dragon Fly," a monody, "Ophelia," with a pedal-point of two periods on the tonic, and a fluent "Barcarolle" with a deal of high-colored virtuosity.
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