¿Esta música que tocan
en la velada del pueblo,
llega hasta la luna blanca
y triste del cementerio?
Las casas están cerradas,
nadie pasa... allá en el cielo
tiemblan, lejanas y mudas,
las estrellas... ¡Oh! ¡los muertos
que con sus bocas, un día
rojas de sangre, rieron
a esta hora, cuando el vals
se abría hacia los luceros!
Muertos que yo conocí,
que me besé, que me diéron
su mano, que se vestían
de seda roa y...
Silencio
para siempre... están cerradas
las puertas; allá en el cielo
conversan lejanamente
las estrellas. Y está el pueblo
blanco de luna y azul
de madrugada y de sueño,
al son de esta vieja música
que llega hasta el cementerio.
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Text Authorship:
- by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881 - 1958), appears in Las pastorales, first published 1905 [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 Joelle Wallach (b. 1946), "¿Esta música que tocan" [ vocal quartet or chorus a cappella ], from La musica, los muertos y las estrellas, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Joelle Wallach) , "Can this music, playing", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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