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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation © by Charles Hopkins (1952 - 2007)

Arabesque
Language: French (Français)  after the Persian (Farsi) 
Une petite arabesque de flûte se déploye,
Triste et nostalgique,
[Étalant]1 dans ses courbes subtiles,
Des désirs sans nom et des voluptés [inouïes]2.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   K. Sorabji 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 K. Sorabji alternate: "Trahissant"
2 K. Sorabji alternate: "dangereuses"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Persian (Farsi) possibly by Shamsuddin Ibrahim Mirza  [text unavailable]
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Arabesque", KSS 24 (1920), published 2006, first performed 2002 [ medium voice and piano ], Bath, The Sorabji Archive; critical edition [sung text checked 2 times]

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

  • ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Arabesque", written 2002, first published 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2015-09-07
Line count: 4
Word count: 26

Arabesque
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
A little flute arabesque unfolds[,]
sad and nostalgic[,]
setting out in its subtle curves
an array of nameless desires and unheard-of delights.

Confirmed with an original Microsoft Word Document provided by Alistair Hinton.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Hopkins (1952 - 2007), "Arabesque", written 2002, first published 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
    • Go to the text page.

Based on:

  • a text in Persian (Farsi) possibly by Shamsuddin Ibrahim Mirza  [text unavailable]
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-08-03
Line count: 4
Word count: 22

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