Les danses de Lormont
See originalLanguage: French (Français)
Our translations: DUT ENG
Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De main en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
Nous sommes de Lormont les blanches demoiselles.
La brise nous soulève et nous porte en avant ;
On dirait qu'à nos pieds la danse met des ailes
Pour nous jeter au vent !
Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De mains en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
Avec sa grande voix la mer nous accompagne.
La mer qui bat la grève et qui rompt les roseaux,
En nous voyant d'en bas planer sur la montagne,
Nous prend pour des oiseaux.
...
Regardez, regardez la montagne enflammée !
C'est Lormont qui s'allume au coucher du soleil.
Regardez sur son front tourner la ronde aimée,
Comme un cercle vermeil !
Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De main en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-4,8-9 of the original text.
Note: a footnote is associated with the title in the 1973 edition as follows: "Les coteaux de Lormont, en face de Bordeaux."
Composition:
Set to music by César Franck (1822 - 1890), "Les danses de Lormont", CFF 165 no. 4, FWV 89 no. 4 (1888), published 1923, stanzas 1-4,8-9 [ vocal duet (or chorus) and piano ], from 6 Duos pour voix égales, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Enoch
Score: IMSLP [external link]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "De dansen van Lormont", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , "The Dances of Lormont", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust
[Administrator] , Lidy van Noordenburg
This text was added to the website: 2008-10-26
Line count: 36
Word count: 185
Language: English after the French (Français)
Linked like a chain
By our songs
Joined hand in hand
Let’s dance! Let’s dance!
We are the white ladies of Lormont
The breeze lifts us and carries us forward
As if dancing puts wings on our feet
Casting us into the wind, casting us into the wind.
Linked like a chain
By our songs
Joined hand in hand
Let’s dance! Let’s dance!
With its great voice, the sea accompanies us,
The sea that strikes the bank and breaks the reeds
Seeing us from below soaring over the mountain,
Takes us for birds.
...
Look, look at the blazing mountain,
It is Lormont illuminated by the setting sun,
Look, on its precipice the circle of love spins around
Like a vermilion circle, like a vermillion circle.
Linked like a chain
By our songs
Joined hand in hand
Let’s dance! Let’s dance!
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-4,8-9 of the original text.
Text Authorship:
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This text was added to the website: 2024-02-05
Line count: 36
Word count: 170
