by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936)
Translation © by Stanley Richardson
Alba
Language: Spanish (Español)
Our translations: FRE
Campanas de Córdoba en la madrugada. Campanas de amanecer en Granada. Os sienten todas las [muchachas que lloran a la tierna soleá enlutada. Las muchachas de Andalucía la alta y la baja.]1 Las niñas de España de pie menudo y temblorosas faldas, que han llenado de luces las encrucijadas. ¡Oh, campanas de Córdoba en la madrugada y oh, campanas de amanecer en Granada!
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1 Crumb: "muchachas."
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1 Crumb: "muchachas."
Text Authorship:
- by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Alba", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Poema de la soleá, first published 1921 [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 George Crumb (1929 - 2022), "Alba", 2009, from The Ghosts of Alhambra, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marcelo Morel (1928 - 1983), "Alba", 1959 [ high voice and piano ], from Canciones de soledad, no. 2, note: this may be the wrong text for this setting. García-Lorca also wrote another poem titled Alba [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Stanley Richardson , copyright © ; composed by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Aube", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-08-11
Line count: 19
Word count: 64
Bells of Cordoba
Language: English after the Spanish (Español)
Bells of Cordoba [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
Based on:
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Federico García Lorca (1898 - 1936), "Alba", appears in Poema del Cante Jondo, in Poema de la soleá, first published 1921
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, Sir (1903 - 1989), "Bells of Cordoba", op. 14 no. 2c (1938), published 1940 [ voice and piano ], from Five Songs, op. 14 no. 2, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2013-02-10
Line count: 19
Word count: 69