Mandoline (Claude Debussy)
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CPDL #17550: 
- Editor: David Newman (added 2008-07-18). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 200 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - File Sizes: PDF: 200 KB. - Editions in A Minor and C sharp Minor.
General Information
Title: Mandoline
Composer: Claude Debussy
Lyricist: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: French
Instruments: Piano
Published: Music: Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918), "Mandoline", 1890 - Lyrics: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) , "Mandoline"
Description: English translation by Henry G. Chapman.
External websites:
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
- English translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
- Italian translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
- Spanish translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
Original text and translations
French text
- Les donneurs de sérénades
- Et les belles écouteuses
- Echangent des propos fades
- Sous les ramures chanteuses.
- C’est Tircis et c’est Aminte,
- Et c’est l’éternel Clitandre,
- Et c’est Damis qui pour mainte
- Cruelle fait maint vers tendre.
- Leurs courtes vestes de soie,
- Leurs longues robes à queues,
- Leur élégance, leur joie
- Et leurs molles ombres bleues,
- Tourbillonent dans l’extase
- D’une lune rose et grise,
- Et la mandoline jase
- Parmi les frissons de brise.
- Lyrics: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), "Mandoline"