O Trobaire! As l'ufan de congrelhar de cantas Qu'al temps avenidor los òmes rediràn. Agacha lo lauraire etèrnament obrant Suls camps que sempre auràn segadas resurgantas! Las relhas an crosat de regas qual sap quantas! Lo tèrraire es coma un palimpsèst ont, laurant Suls bordons dels aujòls, los pacans botaràn Sens fin metiu semen de granas bategantas. Los blats que bèl-temps-a lo cròs fasquèt florir Son los paires d'aquels qu'ara, per nos noirir, An raubat à la mort lor espiga daurada. Atal, Trobaire, fas, dins los bordons d'antan, Novèla curbison subre la vièlha arada; Doman, d'autres siegràn, ta mossada en cantant.
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Confirmed with Antonin Perbosc, L'Arada = L'arée, with a French translation by Xavier Ravier, Biarritz : Atlantica, 2000.
Note: Perbosc strove to “purify” modern Occitan in order to recreate the language used by medieval troubadours. He wanted to make the linguistic work of Frédéric Mistral “more classical.” Mistral won the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature for his work restoring the language of Provence, and Canteloube preferred his approach to Occitan. Canteloube's sung text therefore differs in spelling, and follows below:
O Trobaire! As l'ufan de congrelhar de cantas Qu'al temps avenidor los òmes rediran. Agacha lo lauraire etèrnament óbrant Suls camps que sempre auran4 segadas rezurgantas! Las relhas an crozat de regas qual sab quantas! Lo tèrraire es com un palinsèst ont, laurant Suls bordons dels aujòls, los pacans botaran Sens fin metiu semen de granas bategantas. Los blats que bèl-temps-a lo cròs fasquèt florir Son los paires d'aquels qu'ara, per nos noirir, An raubat à la mort lor espiga daurada. Atal, Trobaire, fas, dins los bordons d'antan, Novèla curbizon subre la vièlha arada; Doman, d'autres siègran, ta mosada1 en cantant.
Authorship:
- by Antonin Perbosc (1861 - 1944), "La Mossada", written 1902, appears in L'Arada, first published 1906 [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 Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879 - 1957), "La mosada", 1922, published 1923, first performed 1923 [ voice and piano ], from L'Arada, no. 3, Paris, Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-07-22
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Word count: 101