Church bells announced the wedding | Church bells announced the wedding

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by Giuseppe Zaffira (flourished 1868-1886)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

E le campane hanno suonato a festa

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

E le campane hanno suonato a festa,
E rimbombato ha l'aria da' mortai;
Ah! Che una cerimonia come questa
Non s'è veduta mai.

Biondina ed io a tutti per le vie
Gettavamo confetti a canestrate;
Abbiam ballato e fatte assai follie
Come v'immaginate,

Poi che fu giunta di quel dì la fine,
Ah! Con quali note ve lo posso dire?
Ebbro di gioia, fra le sue manine
Io mi credea morire!

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Text Authorship:

by Giuseppe Zaffira (flourished 1868-1886), no title [author's text not yet checked 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 Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "E le campane hanno suonato", CG. 347 (1872) [ voice and piano ], from Biondina, poème musical, no. 9, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in French (Français), a translation by (Paul) Jules Barbier (1825 - 1901) ; composed by Charles Gounod.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Church bells announced the wedding", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ferdinando Albeggiani

This text was added to the website: 2004-08-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 71

Church bells announced the wedding

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Church bells announced the wedding,
And fireworks resounded;
Ah! Such a ceremony as this
Was never seen before.

Biondina and I, to everybody in the streets,
Threw Jordan almonds from baskets.
We danced and enjoyed love’s madness
As you might imagine.

Then the day drew to a close,
Ah! How can I possilbly capture it?
Drunk with joy, in her arms
I believed I would die!

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giuseppe Zaffira (flourished 1868-1886), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2016-10-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 66