Ici-bas !

“Ici-bas !” from Fauré’s Mélodies – Recueil 1, spoken in French — 49 seconds, 11 lines of text.

Spoken slowly by an opera singer whose mother tongue is the language of the score, one line at a time, with the phonetic transcription underneath. Slow a phrase without changing its pitch, loop the line that will not sit, and read along as the voice moves.