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by Ronald de Carvalho (1893 - 1935)

Lune d'octobre
Language: French (Français) 
Au long de ces canaux
Le clair de lune
Des lagunes
Danse dans l'eau dans l'eau...

Aux soupirs assoupis
Des mandolines,
En sourdine
Meurent les lys, les lys, les lys,
Les lys sur mon perron...
Les feuilles mortes
Sur l'eau morte
Pleurent ton nom...

Un friselis tout blanc
Clôt le silence...
Somnolences
D'anciens jardins,
D'anciens jardins lassants
Bleuis de lune,
La beguine
Des blans bassins.

Au long des vieux canaux
Le clair de lune
Des lagunes
Danse dans l'eau, dans l'eau...
dans l'eau...

Confirmed with Adriano Lopes Sobrinho, HISTORIETAS DE VILLA-LOBOS: Análise e Interpretação , Belo Horizonte Escola de Música da UFMG 2017, page 46. This poem was probably directly handed over to Villa-Lobos.


Text Authorship:

  • by Ronald de Carvalho (1893 - 1935) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959), "Lune d'octobre", 1920, published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Historietas (Historiettes), no. 2, Rio de Janeiro: Casa Mozart ; title in Portuguese: "Lua de Outubro" [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-05
Line count: 25
Word count: 83

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