Mallarmé's verses, enigmatic and often difficult to decipher in their refinement, are broken down through the use of "sonic gestures" with a marked theatricality. If in poetry the dense network of symbols and images explores the very nature of communication, the same happens in music: words becomes a phonemes, melodies are broken up into precise gestures of the violin, which accompanies – often with irony – the voice.
The profound meaning of the four fragments therefore goes beyond verbality, in an attempt to offer the listener another form of reflection.