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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.
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 against a primary source]
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by A. Lundgren , copyright © ENG FRE ; composed by Lennart Hedwall.
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- 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
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.
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- 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 must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Caracola", appears in Canciones, in Canciones para niños, first published 1921-4
This text was added to the website: 2012-08-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 28