by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
The moon and then the pleiades go down
Language: English after the Aeolic Greek
The moon and then the pleiades go down
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Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Based on:
- a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sheila Silver (b. 1946), "The moon and then the pleiades go down", 1980 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Chariessa, no. 5
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Willis Barnstone (b. 1927) , copyright © ; composed by Cindy McTee.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Raoul Schrott (b. 1964) , appears in Die Erfindung der Poesie, first published 1997, copyright © ; composed by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini.
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