Text Authorship:
- by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), title 1: "鏡湖水如月", title 2: "越女詞五首"
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The water in the Mirror Lake Is clear like the moon. The girl of Yeh-chi Has a face white as snow -- Her silvery image Trembles in the silvery ripple.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891 - 1975), "The water in the Mirror Lake", 1923, published 1924, first performed 1923 [ voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, string quartet, contrabass, percussion ], from The Women of Yueh, no. 5
Text Authorship:
- by Shigeyoshi Obata (1888 - 1971), "The women of Yueh V", appears in Li Po, the Chinese poet, done into English verse
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Li-Tai-Po (701 - 762), title 1: "鏡湖水如月", title 2: "越女詞五首"
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Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
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