Conch | They've brought me a conch

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by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)

Translation © by Jennifer Capaldo

Caracola

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Me han traído una caracola.

Dentro le canta
un mar de mapa.
Mi corazón
se llena de agua
con pececillos
de sombra y plata.

Me han traído una caracola.

Text Authorship:

by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Caracola", appears in Canciones, in Canciones para niños, first published 1921-4 [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 Xavier Montsalvatge (1912 - 2002), "Caracola", 1953, published 1953 [ voice and piano ], from Canciones para niños, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Romanian (Română), a translation by Teodor Balș (1924 - 1983) , copyright © ; composed by Myriam Lucia Marbe.
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Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Arne Lundgren (1925 - 2011) , copyright © ; composed by Lennart Hedwall.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Jennifer Capaldo) , "Conch", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Conque", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-08-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 29

Conch

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

They've brought me a conch.

Inside it sings
an ocean's atlas.
My heart
fills with water
and little fish
of shade and silver.

They've brought me a conch.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Spanish (Español) to English copyright © 2012 by Jennifer Capaldo, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Caracola", appears in Canciones, in Canciones para niños, first published 1921-4
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This text was added to the website: 2012-08-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 28