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*[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=541 Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "Light, My Light ". ] | *[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/assemble_texts.html?SongCycleId=541 Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "Light, My Light ". ] | ||
*[http://artsongcentral.com/2007/gitanjali/ Art Song Central's page on "Gitanjali". ] | |||
*[http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/tagore/gitnjali.htm Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings'.] | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanjali Wikipedia entry for 'Gitanjali'. ] | |||
==Original text and translations== | ==Original text and translations== |
Revision as of 08:54, 12 July 2008
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CPDL #17514:
- Editor: David Newman (added 2008-07-11). Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 380 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - File Sizes: PDF: 380 KB.
General Information
Title: Light, My Light
Composer: John Alden Carpenter
Lyricist: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Aria
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: Music: John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951), no title, published 1914, from Gitanjali (Song Offerings), No. 6. - Lyrics: by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) , from Gitanjali, published 1913.
Description:
External websites:
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Text" site for "Light, My Light ".
- Art Song Central's page on "Gitanjali".
- Details of Rabindranath Tagore's Song Cycle: 'Gitanjali' or `song offerings'.
- Wikipedia entry for 'Gitanjali'.
Original text and translations
English text
- Light, my light, the world-filling light, the eye-kissing light,
- heart-sweetening light! Ah, the light dances, my darling, at
- the centre of my life; the light strikes, my darling, the chords
- of my love; the sky opens, the wind runs wild, laughter
- passes over the earth.
- The butterflies spread their sails on the sea of light. Lilies and
- jasmines surge up on the crest of the waves of light.
- The light is shattered into gold on every cloud, my darling,
- and it scatters gems in profusion.
- Mirth spreads from leaf to leaf, my darling, and gladness
- without measure. The heaven’s river has drowned its banks
- and the flood of joy is abroad.
- Lyrics: by Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) , from Gitanjali, published 1913.