Promiscuity (Jackson, set by (Samuel Barber)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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Translation by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991)

Ní fetar

Language: Irish (Gaelic)

Ní fetar 
cía lasa fífea Etan 
acht ro-fetar Etan bán 
nícon fífea a óenarán.

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This text comes from anonymous manuscript MS 1318, part 16, located at Trinity College, Dublin, from the epic Fled Bricrenn, ocus Loinges mac n-Duíl Dermait; confirmed with a German translation by Ernst Windisch, shown in parallel with the original Irish/Gaelic, from the scholarly journal Irische Texte mit Übersetzungen und Wörterbuch. Zweite Serie, erster Heft, Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1884, Page 180.

Authorship

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 9^th century ) , no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in English, a translation by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991) , "Promiscuity", appears in A Celtic Miscellany, first published 1951 FRE GER ; composed by Samuel Barber.

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GER German (Deutsch) (Melanie Trumbull)

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This text was added to the website: 2017-08-27
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Promiscuity

Language: English after the Irish (Gaelic)

Available translation(s): FRE

I do not know with whom Edan will sleep,
but I do know that fair Edan will not sleep alone.

Authorship

by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (1909 - 1991), "Promiscuity", appears in A Celtic Miscellany, first published 1951 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on

a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, no title

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

by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Promiscuity", op. 29 no. 7 (1953), published 1954 [voice and piano], from Hermit songs, no. 7. [
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Researcher for this text: René Slot

This text was added to the website: 2004-01-18
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Word count: 20