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: SecularArt song

Language: French
Instruments: Piano

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Original text and translations

French.png 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,

Tourbillonnent dans l’extase
D’une lune rose et grise,
Et la mandoline jase
Parmi les frissons de brise.

English.png English text