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Yo escucho los cantos de viejas cadencias que cantan los niños cuando en corro juegan, y vierten en coro sus almas, que sueñan, cual vierten sus aguas las fuentes de piedra: Con monotonías de risas eternas, que no son alegres, con lágrimas viejas, que no son amargas y dicen tristezas, tristezas de amores de antiguas leyendas. En los labios niños, las canciones llevan confusa la historia y clara la pena; como clara el agua lleva su conseja de viejos amores, que nunca se cuentan. Jugando, a la sombra de una plaza vieja, los niños cantaban... La fuente de piedra vertía su eterno cristal de leyenda. Cantaban los niños canciones ingenuas, de un algo que pasa y que nunca llega: La historia confusa y clara la pena. Seguía su cuento la fuente serena, borrada la historia, contaba la pena.
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Text Authorship:
- by António Machado (1875 - 1939), no title [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 Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre (1901 - 1999), "Cantaban los niños", published 1971, from Con Antonio Machado, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Cantavano i bimbi", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Robert Grady
This text was added to the website: 2004-08-01
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Ascolto cadenze di passate canzoni riprese per gioco in girotondi di bimbi, che spargono in coro le anime sognanti come acqua versata da fontane di pietra: con la monotonia di risate eterne, ma senza allegria, con lacrime antiche, ma non amare, che narrano di tristezze, di vecchi amori, di remote leggende. Sulle labbra infantili, recano i canti confusa le storia ma chiara la pena; come è chiara l'acqua che porta la fiaba, di amori antichi, mai raccontati. Giocando all'ombra di un vecchio cortile, cantavano i bimbi.... La fontana di pietra versava il suo eterno cristallo di leggenda. Cantavano i bimbi ingenue canzoni, di qualcosa che passa e non arriva mai: confusa la storia ma chiara la pena. Continuava il racconto la fonte serena, cancellata la storia, narrava la pena.
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- Translation from Spanish (Español) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2010 by Ferdinando Albeggiani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in Spanish (Español) by António Machado (1875 - 1939), no title
This text was added to the website: 2010-05-31
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