Mandolina | Los que dan las serenatas

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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Translation © by Alfredo García

Mandoline

(Sung text for setting by G. Fauré)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT CHI ENG SPA

Les donneurs de sérénades
Et les belles écouteuses
Échangent des propos fades
Sous les ramures chanteuses.

C'est Tircis et c'est Aminte,
Et c'est l'éternel Clitandre,
Et c'est Damis qui pour mainte
Cruelle fit maint vers tendre.

Leurs courtes vestes de soie,
Leurs longues robes à queues,
Leur élégance, leur joie
Et leurs molles ombres bleues

Tourbillonnent dans l'extase
D'une lune rose et grise,
Et la mandoline jase
Parmi les frissons de brise.

Note: first appeared in La Gazette rimée, February 20, 1867, under the title "Trumeau", and then in Fêtes galantes, Paris, éd. Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, under the title "Mandoline".

Composition:

Gabriel Fauré

Cinq mélodies "de Venise"

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), title 1: "Mandoline", title 2: "Trumeau", written 1867, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 15, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CHI Chinese (中文) (Mei Foong Ang) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Mandoliny"
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SPA Spanish (Español) (Alfredo García) , "Mandolina", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Mandolina

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Fauré)

See original

Language: Spanish (Español) after the French (Français)

Los que dan las serenatas
Y las bellas que escuchan
Parlotean con recato
Bajo el rumor de la fronda.

Es Tircis y es Aminta,
Es el eterno Clítandro
Y también Damis, que a tantas
Paga desdén con ternezas.

Breves levitas de seda,
Largos vestidos de cola,
Su elegancia, su alegría
Y sus sombras desvaídas

Giran, cautivos del éxtasis
De una luna rosa y gris.
Y en la brisa estremecida
Lo glosa todo la mandolina.

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Translation from French (Français) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2004 by Alfredo García, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), title 1: "Mandoline", title 2: "Trumeau", written 1867, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 15, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1867
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