Hors de la belle cage | Hors de la belle cage

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Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Fuor de la bella gaiba

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Fuor de la bella [gaiba]¹
Fuge lo lusignuolo.
Plange lo fantino, poiche
non trova lo
So oselino ne la [gaiba]¹ nova;
E dice cum dolo:
Chi gli avrì l'usolo?
En un buschetto se mise ad andare;
Sentì l'ozletto sì dolce cantare.
Or bel, [lusignuolo]², 
torna nel mio brolo.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• Z. Kodály

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¹ Kodály: "caiba"
² Kodály: "sí bel lusignuolo"

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 14th century ) [author's text not yet checked 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 Alfredo Casella (1883 - 1947), "Fuor de la bella gaiba", op. 36 no. 2 (1923), from Tre canzoni trecentesche, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Zoltán Kodály (1882 - 1967), "Fuor de la bella caiba", 1931/2 [ women's chorus ], from Quattro madrigali italiani (Négy olasz madrigál ), no. 4, madrigal [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Guy Laffaille) , "Out of the cage", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Hors de la belle cage", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 52

Hors de la belle cage

Language: French (Français) after the Italian (Italiano)

Hors de la belle cage
Le rossignol s'échappe.
Il pleure son petit parce que
Le trouver il ne le peut,
le petit oiseau dans sa nouvelle cage ;
et il dit avec douleur :
Qui a ouvert la cage ?
Dans un bosquet il commence à avancer,
il entend l'oiseau chanter si doucement.
et il dit avec douleur :
O beau, si beau rossignol,
reviens dans mon jardin.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2009-12-05
Line count: 12
Word count: 64