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by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
Translation © by Pierre Mathé
How sweet the answer Echo makes
Language: English
How sweet the answer Echo makes To Music at night, When, rous'd by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering light! Yet Love hath echoes truer far, And far more sweet, Than e'er beneath the moonlight's star, Of horn, or lute, or soft guitar, The songs repeat. 'Tis when the sigh, in youth sincere, And only then, -- The sigh that's breath'd for one to hear, Is by that one, that only dear, Breath'd back again.
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- by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852), "Echo", appears in Irish Melodies, first published 1821 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Karolyn Wells Bassett (1892 - 1931), "Echoes", published <<1929 [ high voice and piano ], from Three Love Ballads [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Sir (1883 - 1953), "Echo", 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 6, lost [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Blower (1894 - 1982), "Echo", published c1935 [ SA chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "How sweet the answer" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Patricia Cartwright , "How sweet the answer Echo makes", published 1959 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Elizabeth Penn Sprague Coolidge (Mrs. Frederick Shurtleff Coolidge) (1864 - 1953), "Echoes", published <<1929 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alexander Samuel Cooper (1835 - ?), "Sweet echo", published 1871 [ SATB chorus (and piano?) ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "How sweet the answer ", 1980 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Edmondstoune Duncan (1866 - 1920), "Echoes", op. 120 no. ? [ chorus a cappella ], from Six Part-Songs, London: Scott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kenneth George Finlay (1882 - 1974), "Echoes", published 1933 [ SS chorus or SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Gál (1890 - 1987), "Echo", 1942 [ mixed chorus and piano ], from Three Lyric Poems, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cuthbert Harris (1870 - 1932), "Echoes", published 1915 [ SATB chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frank Haworth (1905 - 1993), "Echoes" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Echo", published 1944 [ high voice or medium voice and piano ], from Nine English Songs, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oliver A. King (1855 - 1923), "Echoes", published 1892 [ four-part men's chorus (a cappella?) ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Basil Hugh Longmire (1902 - 1986), "Echoes", published 1950 [ unison chorus and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "How sweet the answer", published 1897 [ satb chorus and piano ], from Six Modern Lyrics, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thomas Pasatieri (b. 1945), "How sweet the answer", 2003 [ voice and piano ], from A rustling of angels, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Sullivan, Sir (1842 - 1900), "Echoes", published 1868 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by (Thomas) Gerard Victory (1921 - 1995), "Echo", 1970 [ soprano or tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Hubert Engels.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Écho", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Virginia Knight
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 82
Écho
Language: French (Français) after the English
Comme est douce la réponse qu'Écho fait La nuit à la musique, Quand, excitée par le luth ou le cor, elle s'éveille Et que bien loin, par-dessus prairies et lacs Passe sa réponse légère ! Mais Amour a des échos bien plus sincères Et bien plus doux, Dont, toujours sous les étoiles au clair de lune, Le cor ou le luth ou la douce guitare Répètent la chanson. C'est quand le soupir, dans sa jeune sincérité, Et seulement alors, Le soupir expiré pour être entendu Par celui pour qui seul il est cher Est expiré en retour.
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- Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2014 by Pierre Mathé, (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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Based on:
- a text in English by Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852), "Echo", appears in Irish Melodies, first published 1821
This text was added to the website: 2014-04-16
Line count: 15
Word count: 97