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by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931)
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Notre bateau glisse
Language: French (Français)  after the Chinese (中文) 
Notre bateau glisse sur le fleuve calme.
Au-delà du verger qui borde la rive,
Je regarde les montagnes bleues et les nuages blancs.

Mon amie sommeille, la main dans l'eau,
Un papillon s'est [glissé]1 sur son épaule,
A battu des ailes [et]2 puis s'est envolé.

[Longuement je l'ai suivi des yeux]3.
Il se dirigeait vers les montagnes de Tchang-nân.

Était-ce un papillon, ou le rêve que venait de faire mon amie ?

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Moulaert 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Moulaert: "posé"
2 omitted by Moulaert.
3 Moulaert: "Je l'ai suivi des yeux, longtemps"

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Notre bateau glisse", appears in La flûte de jade, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1920 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Chinese (中文) by Chang-Wou-Kien (1879 - 1931) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by G. Basilewsky , "Notre bateau glisse", op. 18 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes chinois, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by André Bled , "Notre bateau glisse", 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Delune (1876 - 1940), "Notre bateau glisse", 1922, published 1924 [ medium voice, piano, flute ad libitum ], from Le Collier des offrandes, six poèmes lyriques d'après des poésies chinoises, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Hérelle, Fortemps, & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jacqueline Despas (b. 1893), "Notre bateau glisse", published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Chinois Extraits de La Flûte de jade, no. 2, Éd. Jean Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Marius-François Gaillard (1900 - 1973), "Notre bateau glisse", 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies chinoises, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Notre bateau glisse", op. 36 no. 2 (1925-1926), published [1927] [ voice and piano ], from La flûte de jade: Sept Poésies chinoises traduites par Franz Toussaint, no. 2, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Notre bateau glisse", 1917, published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre poèmes chinois extraits de La Flûte de Jade de Franz Toussaint, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-10-14
Line count: 9
Word count: 75

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