Commedia dell'Arte | Scaramouche explains the beauties of the military state

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by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

La comédie italienne

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

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Scaramouche explique les beautés de l'état militaire.
On y est fortement malin, dit-il.
On fait peur aux civils.
Et les galantes aventures !
Et le reste !
Quel beau métier !

Text Authorship:

by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925) [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 Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925), "La comédie italienne", 1914 [piano], from Sports et divertissements, no. 3, note: the text comes from remarks written in the score [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , title 1: "Commedia dell'Arte", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-04
Line count: 6
Word count: 28

Commedia dell'Arte

Language: English after the French (Français)

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Scaramouche explains the beauties of the military state.
It’s extremely cunning, he says.
It frightens the civilians.
And the chivalrous escapades!
And the rest!
What a beautiful profession!

Note: Scaramouche is a stock Commedia dell’Arte clown character attired in black Spanish dress and burlesquing a don.

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a text in French (Français) by Alfred Erik Leslie Satie (1866 - 1925)
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This text was added to the website: 2016-10-23
Line count: 6
Word count: 28