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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

Les danses de Lormont
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  DUT ENG
Chorus
 Poursuivant les nouées
 De nos chansons
 De main en main nouées
 Dansons! dansons!
 
Nous sommes de Lormont les blanches demoiselles
La brise nous soulève et nous porte en avant
On dirait qu'à 'nos pieds la danse met des ailles
Pour nous jeter au vent, pour nous jeter au vent.
(Chorus)
 
Avec sa grande voix, la mer nous accompagne,
La mer qui bat la grêve et qui rompt les roseaux
En nous voyant d'en bas planer sur la montagne,
Nous prend pour des oiseaux.

Regardez, regardez la montagne enflammée,
C'est Lormont qui s'allume au coucher du soleil,
Regardez, sur son front tourner la ronde aimée
Comme un cercle vermeil, comme un cercle vermeil.
(Chorus)

Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859) [author's text not yet checked 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 César Franck (1822 - 1890), "Les danses de Lormont", CFF 165 no. 4, FWV 89 no. 4 (1888), published 1923 [ vocal duet (or chorus) and piano ], from 6 Duos pour voix égales, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Enoch [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "De dansen van Lormont", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , "The Dances of Lormont", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Lidy van Noordenburg

This text was added to the website: 2008-10-26
Line count: 19
Word count: 118

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