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Note: the following transliteration appears in Berio's score:

Loosin yelav en sareetz
saree partzaer gadareetz
shegleeg megleeg yeresov
paervetz kedneen loosnidzov

Jan ain loosin Jan ko loosin
Jan ko gaelor sheg yereseen

xavarn arten tchaekatzav
oo el kedneen tchaegatzav
loosni loosov halatzvadz
moot amberi metch maenadz

Jan ain loosin Jan ko loosin
Jan ko gaelor sheg yereseen

Text Authorship:

• from Volkslieder (Folksongs)  [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 Luciano Berio (1925 - 2003), "Loosin yelav", 1964, from Folk Songs, no. 3, note: arranged for Cathy Berberian  [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The moon rose", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 50