by Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c310 - 393/4)
Translation by Helen Jane Waddell (1889 - 1965)
Quis color ille vadis, seras cum...
Language: Latin
Quis color ille vadis, seras cum propulit umbras Hesperus et viridi perfundit monte Mosellam! tota natant crispis iuga motibus et tremit absens pampinus et vitreis vindemia turget in undis.
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Text Authorship:
- by Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c310 - 393/4), no title, an excerpt from a long prose passage [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 William Hawley (b. 1950), "Mosella", first performed 1983 [ double SATB chorus a cappella ], from Two Motets for Double Chorus, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Helen Jane Waddell (1889 - 1965) , "Evening on the Moselle", appears in Medieval Latin Lyrics ; composed by Ina Boyle, Gustav Holst.
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Evening on the Moselle
Language: English after the Latin
What colour are they now, thy quiet waters? The evening star has brought the evening light, And filled the river with the green hillside; The hill-tops waver in the rippling water, Trembles the absent vine and swells the grape In thy clear crystal.
Confirmed with Helen Waddell, Mediaeval Latin Lyrics, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1948, page 31.
Text Authorship:
- by Helen Jane Waddell (1889 - 1965), "Evening on the Moselle", appears in Medieval Latin Lyrics [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Latin by Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c310 - 393/4), no title, an excerpt from a long prose passage
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ina Boyle (1889 - 1967), "Evening on the Moselle", 1953-66 [ voice and piano ], from Three Medieval Latin Lyrics, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934), "Evening on the Moselle", published c1965 [ 2 voices, piano ], from Eight canons, no. 7, London : New York : Faber and Faber [sung text not yet checked]
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