by Abu Bakr al-Turtushi (1059 - 1126)
Translation © by Cola Franzen (b. 1923)
Absence
Language: English after the Arabic (العربية)
Every night I scan [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Cola Franzen (b. 1923), "Absence", appears in Poems of Arab Andalusia, City Lights Books, first published 1989, copyright © [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abu Bakr al-Turtushi (1059 - 1126) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Kurt Erickson , "Absence", 2013, first performed 2013 [ voice and piano ], from Four Andalusian Love Songs, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
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Word count: 55