Nas ondas da praia Nas ondas do mar Quero ser feliz Quero me afogar. Nas ondas da praia Quem vem me beijar? Quero a estrela-d'alva Rainha do mar. Quero ser feliz Nas ondas do mar Quero esquecer tudo Quero descansar.
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Text Authorship:
- by Manuel Bandeira (1886 - 1968), "Cantiga" [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 Heitor Alimonda (1922 - 2002), "Cantiga" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez (1897 - 1948), "Canção do mar", 1934, published 1971 [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Arthur Napoleão [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Osvaldo Costa de Lacerda (1927 - 2011), "Cantiga", op. 8 no. 2 (1953) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Mahle (b. 1929), "Cantiga", 1961 [ medium-low voice and piano ], from Cinco canções - Seis poesias de Manuel Bandeira, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francisco Mignone (1897 - 1986), "Cantiga", 1938, published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from Quatro líricas, no. 1, São Paulo: Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Achille Guido Picchi (b. 1951), "Cantiga do mar", op. 97 (1989) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kilza Setti de Castro Lima (b. 1932), "Cantiga", 1960 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ricardo Tacuchian (b. 1939), "Cantiga", 1964 [ voice and piano ], São Paulo: ECA/USP [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernst Widmer (1927 - 1990), "Cantiga", op. 32 no. 2 (1964) [ high voice and piano ], from Três ciclos de 4 canções I, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sarah Daughtrey) (Lucy Zollner) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-06-15
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