El niño mudo | El niño busca su voz

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

El niño busca su voz

Language: Spanish (Español)

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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.)

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• G. Crumb • F. Mompou

G. Crumb sets stanzas 1-2

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Text 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 (1929 - 2022), no title, 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 (flourished c1941-1946) ; composed by Francis Poulenc.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 63