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Six mélodies

Song Cycle by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961)

1. Au fil de l'eau

Language: French (Français) 
Lentement et sans bruit la barque glisse
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Text Authorship:

  • by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "Au fil de l'eau"

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2. Complainte

Language: French (Français) 
Hélas ! Que je suis désolée
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Text Authorship:

  • by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "Complainte"

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3. Avant que tu ne t'en ailles  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Avant que tu ne t'en ailles,
Pâle étoile du matin
-- Mille cailles
Chantent, chantent dans le thym. --

Tourne devers le poète
Dont les yeux sont pleins d'amour ;
-- L'alouette
Monte au ciel avec le jour. --

Tourne ton regard que noie
L'aurore dans son azur ;
-- Quelle joie
Parmi les champs de blé mûr! --

[Puis]1 fais luire ma pensée
Là-bas -- bien loin, oh, bien loin !
-- La rosée
Gaîment brille sur le foin. --

Dans le doux rêve où s'agite
Ma [mie]2 endormie encor...
-- Vite, vite,
Car voici le soleil d'or. --

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 5, first published 1870

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Before you vanish", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Fauré: "Et"
2 Fauré: "vie"

Researcher for this page: Didier Pelat

4. Calmes dans le demi‑jour  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Calmes dans le demi-jour
Que les branches hautes font,
Pénétrons bien notre amour
De ce silence profond.

[Fondons]1 nos âmes, nos cœurs
Et nos sens extasiés,
Parmi les vagues langueurs
Des pins et des arbousiers.

Ferme tes yeux à demi,
Croise tes bras sur ton sein,
Et de ton cœur endormi
Chasse à jamais tout dessein.

Laissons-nous persuader
Au souffle berceur et doux,
Qui vient à tes pieds rider
Les ondes des gazons roux.

Et quand, solennel, le soir
Des chênes noirs tombera,
Voix de notre désespoir,
Le rossignol chantera.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "En sourdine", written 1868, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 21, first published 1868

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Anna Brull Piñol) , "Calms, dins el capvespre", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Muted", copyright ©
  • ENG English (Laura Claycomb) (Peter Grunberg) , "Muted", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) (Julie Nezami-Tavi) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Gedämpften Tons", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , "Απαλή αγάπη", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Pablo Sabat) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , "En voz baja", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, pages 49-50. Note: first appeared in the journal L'Artiste, July 1, 1868, and then in 1869 in Fêtes galantes, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre.

Note: The ampersands (&) as appear in the first publication are changed to "et".

1 Fauré: "Mêlons"

Research team for this page: Didier Pelat , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

5. L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
L'ombre des arbres dans la rivière embrumée
  Meurt comme de la fumée,
Tandis qu'en l'air, parmi les ramures réelles,
  Se [plaignent]1 les tourterelles.

Combien, ô voyageur, ce paysage blême
  Te mira blême toi-même,
Et que tristes pleuraient dans les hautes feuillées, -
  Tes espérances noyées.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 9, first published 1872

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The shadow of the trees in the misty river", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der Bäume Schatten", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Zeitgenössische Dichter, in Frankreich, in Paul Verlaine, in Aus: Lieder ohne Worte, in Vergessene Weisen, no. 9
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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1 Philippart-Gonzalez: "plaindre"

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Christiane Garoux

6. La ballade du vieux chêne

Language: French (Français) 
Le vieux chêne au feuillage touffu
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Text Authorship:

  • by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "La ballade du vieux chêne"

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Total word count: 224
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