El niño busca su voz. (La tenía el rey de los grillos.) En una gota de agua buscaba su voz el niño. No la quiero para hablar; me haré con ella un anillo que llevará mi silencio en su dedo pequeñito. En una gota de agua buscaba su voz el niño. (La voz cautiva, a lo lejos, se ponía un traje de grillo.)
G. Crumb sets stanzas 1-2
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Authorship
- by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "El niño mudo", appears in Canciones, in Trasmundo [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 George Crumb (b. 1929), "El niño busca su voz", 1970, stanzas 1-2 [ soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, electric piano, and percussion ], from Ancient Voices of Children, no. 1, New York : Peters [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Agustín Fernández (b. 1958), "El niño mudo", 1976 [ low voice and piano ], from El anillo, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "El niño mudo " [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in English, a translation by William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927) , copyright © ; composed by Alvin Brehm.
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Félix Gattegno , copyright © ; composed by Francis Poulenc.
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "L'enfant muet", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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L'enfant cherche sa voix [ ... ]
Authorship
- by Félix Gattegno , copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "El niño mudo", appears in Canciones, in Trasmundo
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "L'enfant muet", FP. 136 (1947), from Trois Chansons de F. Garcia-Lorca, no. 1 [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in English, a translation by William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927) , copyright © FRE FRE ; composed by Alvin Brehm.
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-08
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