Mandoline (Claude Debussy)
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- Editor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-18). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 240 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Editions in A Minor and C sharp Minor. English translation by Henry G. Chapman.
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: 1890
Description:
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
Mandoline
- 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,
- Tourbillonnent dans l’extase
- D’une lune rose et grise,
- Et la mandoline jase
- Parmi les frissons de brise.
English text
Mandolin
- The givers of serenades
- And the beautiful listeners
- Exchange insipid words
- Beneath the singing branches.
- There is Thyrsis and Amyntas,
- And there's the eternal Clytander,
- And there's Damis who, for many
- Heartless women, wrote many tender verses.
- Their short, silk vests,
- Their long robes with trains,
- Their elegance, their joy,
- And their soft, blue shadows,
- Whirling in the ecstasy
- Of the pink and grey moon,
- And the mandolin prattles
- Among the shivers of the breeze.