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The Swan (based on Mallarmé's Sonnet
The Swan (based on Mallarmé's Sonnet
| Composer | David W Solomons |
|---|---|
| Arrangement | four altos a cappella |
| Co-Authors | - |
| Lyrics | Mallarmé translated by S N Solomons |
| Performed by | the dwsChorale |
| Uploaded on | 15 July 2008 20:28 |
| Uploaded by | dwsolo |
| Genre | Contemporary |
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Details
| Publisher | Dwsolo |
|---|---|
| Difficulty | Experienced |
| Pages | 3 |
| Religion | Not applicable |
| Nationality | - |
| Layout | - |
|---|---|
| Clef | Not applicable |
| Instrumentation | Voice, singing |
| Language | English |
| Catalogue id | MSS-801-1905AED |
Description
A-cappella work in very close harmony for four equal voices (four altos in this case, although alternative transpositions can be provided on request).
It is a setting of my father's translation of the following poem by Mallarmé:
SONNET
Stéphane Mallarmé
Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui
Va-t-il nous déchirer avec un coup d'aile ivre
Ce lac dur oublié que hante sous le givre
Le transparent glacier des vols qui n'ont pas fui?
Un cygne d'autrefois se souvient que c'est lui
Magnifique mais qui sans espoir se délivre
Pour n'avoir pas chanté la région où vivre
Quand du stérile hiver a resplendi l'ennui.
Tout son col secouera cette blanche agonie
Par l'espace infligée à l'oiseau qui le nie,
Mais non l'horreur du sol où le plumage est pris.
Fantôme qu'à ce lieu son pur éclat assigne,
Il s'immobilise au songe froid de mépris
Que vêt parmi l'exil inutile le Cygne.
The Swan - by S N Solomons - based on the Mallarmé Sonnet
Will the fair vivid virgin day
Shatter with random blow the ice
On frozen lakes of memory
Haunted by unflown flights!
Conscious of splendour that has been
Strives, apathetic and dejected
Authentic life unhymned dejected
When winter spread its spleen.
Casting the candid agonies of space
that it denies, congealed in earth,
forlorn, doomed to this place
by genius assigned
fast in a frigid dream of scorn
cloaking a vain exile - the Swan.
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