Aube | Cloches de Cordoue

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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Alba

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: FRE

Campanas de Córdoba
en la madrugada.
Campanas de amanecer
en Granada.
Os sienten todas las [muchachas
que lloran a la tierna
soleá enlutada.
Las muchachas
de Andalucía la alta
y la baja.]¹
Las niñas de España
de pie menudo
y temblorosas faldas,
que han llenado de luces
las encrucijadas.
¡Oh, campanas de Córdoba
en la madrugada
y oh, campanas de amanecer
en Granada!

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Crumb

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¹ Crumb: "muchachas."

Text Authorship:

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Alba", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Poema de la soleá, first published 1921 [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 George Crumb (1929 - 2022), "Alba", 2009, from The Ghosts of Alhambra, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Marcelo Morel (1928 - 1983), "Alba", 1959 [ high voice and piano ], from Canciones de soledad, no. 2, note: this may be the wrong text for this setting. García-Lorca also wrote another poem titled Alba [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Stanley Richardson , copyright © ; composed by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Aube", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-11
Line count: 19
Word count: 64

Aube

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

Cloches de Cordoue
dans le matin,
Cloches de l'aube
à Grenade.
Toutes les filles vous entendent
en pleurant la tendre
soleá endeuillée.
Les jeunes filles
d'Andalousie, la haute
et la basse.
Les filles d'Espagne
au pied menu,
aux jupes tremblantes,
qui ont rempli de lumières
les carrefours.
Oh, cloches de Cordoue
dans le matin
et vous, oh, cloches de l'aube
à Grenade !

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to French (Français) copyright © 2015 by Guy Laffaille, (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 Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Alba", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Poema de la soleá, first published 1921
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This text was added to the website: 2015-12-25
Line count: 19
Word count: 62