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

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Original text and translations

French.png 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.png English text

Mandolin

The givers of serenades
And the beautiful, listening women
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.