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Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words)
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Subject: Lyr Req: Schuberts Serenade (English words) From: GUEST,Murphy Date: 20 Aug 10 - 10:17 AM Can anyone please please supply an English translation of Schuberts serenade, one which is synchronised with the music as opposed to a literal tranlation. Thank you. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schuberts Serenade (Engish words) From: GUEST Date: 20 Aug 10 - 10:19 AM I know, I know, the heading should read ENGLISH. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schuberts Serenade (Engish words) From: GUEST,Guest2 Date: 20 Aug 10 - 11:27 AM Here is an English version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTiX1vNyEA The original poem is by Ludwig Rellstab. Rellstab's assistant Gugl Translet has the following variant for Schubert's version, of somewhat equal quality (note particularly the poetic verse "Also let you move the chest"): 1st Quiet implore my songs Through the night to you; down in the quiet grove, Darling, come to me! Whispering slim treetops rustle |: In light of the moon: | The hostile betrayer |: Be afraid, darling, do not! : | 2nd Do you hear the nightingales? Oh, they beckon to you, With the sweet sound complaints Implore them to me. They understand the heart tendons, |: Know the pain of love: | Stirring with the silver tones |: Each tender heart. : | 3rd Also let you move the chest, Hear me darling, Trembling I await you! |: Come on, please me! : | Gladden me! F. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schuberts Serenade (Engish words) From: GUEST,giles earle (lost my cookie!) Date: 20 Aug 10 - 11:58 AM Which Standchen? I believe there are two.... If it's the solo song ("Leise flehen meine lieder") that you're after, I seem to recall that the Schirmer edition of Schwanegesang gives words in English as an alternative to the German. With copyright in mind, I'm not sure I ought to fish out my old copy and type out the words for public airing online! - but I imagine you could find a (second-hand?) copy of the music easily eough. Schwanengesang is in volume I of the Schirmer edition of Schubert's sogs. It's a long time since I've looked at the score, but I seem to recall that the English is a pretty clumsy paraphrase. I don't wish to pry, but is there any major reason why you couldn't tackle the German? Rellstab's poem fits the melody so splendidly. |
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Subject: ADD: Schubert's Serenade (German words) From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Aug 10 - 12:02 AM For the record, here are the German words, copied from ingeb.org
Guest2's English translation looks pretty good to me. Putting on my moderator hat, let me say this: Guest2, can you please pick a name and use it consistently when you post at Mudcat? I see you've been using "Bjarne" in more recent posts - that's good. Thanks. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: giles earle Date: 21 Aug 10 - 04:16 AM ... cookie restored. This set of words not great, but also not copyright. Well, actually my own translation/paraphrase, so I guess copyright is mine in theory, but I don't believe in being precious about such things. Quietly pleading, quietly singing Through the night to thee; Though the grove at quiet evening Come, my love, to me Under trees that whisper softly In the moonlight clear; Fear thou not the eyes that wray thee Fear thou not, my dear. Hark! The nightingales they call thee, Ah! They cry to thee Sweetly crying, sweetly singing, Calling thee to me. Ah! They know the pains so heart-sore, Know the pains of love, Sliver tones to calm the suff'rings Tender hearts to move. Let them now thy soul enrapture, Dearest! Hid by night Trembling now I wait thy coming Ah! My life's delight! |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST,Bjarne Date: 21 Aug 10 - 05:28 AM Joe, you are watching IP adresses, for which I cannot blame you. In former times I was Guest2 but this nick has been taken by (several?) other people. I have no problem with consistency or defending anything I write, I just do not want to be recognized in my RL identity by certain persons. My "translation" (as Guest2) of Rellstab was a joke, produced by Google Translate. Richard Tauber on YouTube is worth hearing, not quite up to present day's taste though. The ingeb.org page has Rellstab's original poem as "I." (the arab numbers being misplaced) and Schubert's excerpts as "II.". Schubert's version is very popular, but not considered a Volkslied as much as the "Lindenbaum". |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: giles earle Date: 21 Aug 10 - 05:59 AM And the sad thing is, Bjarne, that many a 'proper' translation is every bit as clunky as your joke version. Thanks to my complete inability to produce a comment with no typo, there's a silly mistake in the metrical paraphrase above: "Sliver tones to calm the suff'rings" should of course be "Silver tones to calm the suff'rings". Oops. My apologies to Mr Rellstab for being an eejit. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST,Bjarne Date: 21 Aug 10 - 07:20 AM > And the sad thing is, Bjarne, that many a 'proper' > translation is every bit as clunky as your joke version. That, dear giles earle, was my point when I wrote >> of somewhat equal quality Of course I am not a good judge of translations, none of the two languages being my mother tongue. Your version reduces the number of rhymes, and by rhyming "move" to "love", you apply a wonderful archaism as (quite wrongly) ridiculed in Gilbert's lines: In that case unprecedented, Single I must live and die — I shall have to be contented With a tulip or lily! Rellstab has no archaisms as far as I see, but then, his topic is as conventional as can be. Bjarne |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: giles earle Date: 21 Aug 10 - 01:10 PM Indeed. But at least my attempt is metrical, which is what guest,Murphy said he was after – and, in my voice at any rate, my Englished verses seem to work more or less adequately, in terms of fitting the stresses and vowel-lengths to Schubert's melody. To judge from the two English versions I have to hand (editions published by Schirmer and by Paterson), it would seem to be a common decision to compromise the rhyme-scheme of the original German in the attempt to produce a metrically acceptable English song. There is, of course, nothing to stop you, guest,Murphy or anyone else writing his/her own translation: any of which would no doubt be more successful than mine. In the meantime, is guest,Murphy still out there?!? Have we helped at all? |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST,Bjarne Date: 21 Aug 10 - 02:48 PM As I wrote before, I neither qualify for a translator nor a critic of translations. Joe, I think, is an expert in both languages and an excellent poet as well, but he might not risk his reputation on such a difficult - and time-consuming - task. Murphy, if he or she actually wants to sing the serenade in public, would be well-advised to stick to one of the available printed versions as the one you mentioned. She/he owes you a thank you anyway, giles. Schubert is actually a topic for classical forums, of which there must be galore, including ones for lied singers. However, his style is rooted in Viennese folk music in many aspects, which makes him interesting for us as well. Bjarne |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: Art Thieme Date: 21 Aug 10 - 05:02 PM Alas, in my dealings into the roots o' stuff I've unearthed pun intended) Franz Schubert favorite philly was horse named Sarah. One day Schubert's Sarah neighed----(and voila ;-) Art |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Aug 10 - 01:22 AM Bjarne, I've tried translating poetry from one language to another, and I've always hated the results. If you're hoping for results that are good poetry, your translation must usually be very loose; and all you can hope for is to convey part of the meaning and part of the impact of the original. So....I avoid attempting poetic translations of poetry, like the plague. Giles did a pretty good job, although I'd fit in "betray" instead of "wray" and not worry too much about being a slave to the meter. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST,Bjarne Date: 22 Aug 10 - 05:02 AM I wouldn't worry, it's not our job. Speaking about job: right now I'm leaving on a jet plane, I don't know when I'll be back again to mudcat. Have a good time and thanks to you, Joe, to the admins and all the contributors. My friends here will keep me informed. Bjarne |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SCHUBERT'S SERENADE/STÄNDCHEN (F Schubert From: Jim Dixon Date: 26 Aug 10 - 01:25 PM There are arrangements of SCHUBERT'S SERENADE/STÄNDCHEN in the following books, viewable with Google: The first 3 books have the same lyrics, beginning "Through the leaves the night-winds moving." A one-voice melody line is given in The Home Melodist (Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1859), page 20. An arrangement by C. Kuntze for 4 voices is in The Boylston Club Collection of German and English Four Part Songs (Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1875), page 162. An arrangement for one voice and piano appears in The World's Best Music, Volume 4, edited by Helen Kendrick Johnson, Frederic Dean, Reginald De Koven, Gerrit Smith (New York: The University Society, 1903), page 1108. Through the leaves the night-winds moving, Murmur low and sweet! To thy chamber window roving, Love hath led my feet. Silent prayers of blissful feeling, Link us though apart, On the breath of music stealing, To thy dreaming heart. Moonlight on the earth is sleeping, Winds are rustling low; Where the darkling streams are creeping, Dearest, let us go. All the stars keep watch in heaven, While I sing to thee, And the light for love was given, Dearest, come to me. Sadly in the forest mourning, Wails the whippoorwill, And the heart for thee is yearning, Bid it, love, be still. English lyrics by Lowell Sturgis, beginning "Whisp'ring breezes o'er the mountain" appear in an arrangement for 4 voices in The Corona Song Book, edited by William C. Hoff (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1903), page 216. Whisp'ring breezes o'er the mountain Murmur soft and low. Chirping songsters flit o'er meadows Lightly to and fro. Down the hollows softly rumbling Glides a fairy stream. O'er the lofty summits pouring Shines a golden sheen. Shades of evening softly stealing Loom upon the sky. Length'ning shadows thro' the woodlands Tell that night is nigh. Far o'erhead in beauty glorious Sails the peaceful moon, While the plash of paddle echoes Down the long lagoon. Hark! A voice is sadly wailing O'er the gloomy stream. Ah! A soul in pain has wakened From a golden dream. English lyrics by Henry G. Chapman, beginning "Softly goes my song's entreaty" appear, in arrangement for one voice and piano, in The Family Music Book (New York: G. Schirmer, 1914), page 541: Softly goes my song's entreaty Thro' the night to thee, In the silent woods I wait thee. Come, my love, to me. Tree-tops slender sough and whisper In the moonlight here. No unfriendly ear shall listen. Darling, have no fear. Hark! the nightingales are singing. Ah, they plead with thee! With their notes so sweet, so ringing, They would plead for me. Well they know a lover's longing, Know the pain of love, With their silver-tonéd voices Tender hearts they move. Ah, let thine, as well grow tender. Sweetheart, why so coy? Anxious, fever'd, I await thee. Come and bring me joy. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST,Murphy Date: 09 Sep 10 - 06:13 AM Sorry for my delay in getting back. Thanks to all of you who posted to the thread, especially those who took the trouble to translate the words. Regarding my publicly performing this I have neither the voice or the musical ability to risk it. Being a self taught pianist is has taken me weeks to navigate the subtle major to minor variations in each line. As for learning the original German words, no thanks, I'll have enough problems with the English version. Thanks again, everyone. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST,Daniel Chendra Date: 28 Apr 13 - 06:09 PM I'm not a translator, but I like music and singing when I was young (back to some 45 years ago)and it's still clinging in my mind each time I heard the Schubert Serenade the english lyrics of which I read from a Piano Book: The night was young when you came along Then two violins played I held your hands, it was love's command to sing our sweet serenade When I looked up on the sky Dear everything seemed so far more than a distant star When I gazed into your eyes dear you're close to me and then life comes to me again |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST Date: 16 Nov 15 - 07:51 PM Irene Dunne Sang these Lyrics in 1939 film Hurrigan (When tomorrow comes) ------------ My Song to Thee, In the Silents of the Moon Light Dearest come to me. Waiting branches softly whisper, near the Starry Sea, near the starry sea. Never feel that ------ Dearest far and near, Dearest far and near. ----------------- Dearest come to me, My beloved I adore thee, Dearest come to me, Dearest come to me, Oh come to me. I do not know the missing words, can you help. The beginning she Hums second, feel that missing word I could not pick up on DVD, then after Dearest far and near a whole she hummed up to Dearest come to me. I have played the DVD several times. I have tried several English translation on the internet but they sound so stupid words.jbgb |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: keberoxu Date: 17 Nov 15 - 01:24 PM This is a job for Emily Ezust! For her website, that is. I am no good with blue clickies -- I have tried, believe me -- so I will spell out: http://www.lieder.net She has in her database, the songs' original lyrics, as well as translations into multiple languages, English included. I looked up the "Staendchen," "leise flehen meine Lieder," and there were at least two singable English translations. |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST Date: 09 Dec 15 - 02:32 PM =====================my song to thee, in the silence of the moonlight Dearest come to me, Waiting branches softly whisper near the starry sea,near the starry sea, Never that all can harm thee Dearest far and near,Dearest far and near. ========================= Dearest come to me my beloved i adore thee Dearest come to me, Dearest come to me, Ah come to me. Can any one fill the missing words please ?. Song was sung by IRENE DUNNE in the Film When Tomorrow Comes thee other title is (Hurrigan) Glad if you can Help. jbgb |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: GUEST Date: 09 Jun 21 - 01:05 AM Hello there, I am a singer *living in Sydney) and searching for a good set of lyrics to sing on to a UK backing track I have purchased, so as to post on to my new YouTube site (Jovial George's Surprise Package........I am not sure whether to write my own or to select the best one available, right here. Seems, they are all free from copyright. However, money doesn't come into what I am intending to do, and that is, to get recognition, *at age 86). Am I free to choose one of these sets of lyrics, for the song, Serenade De Schubert.....Thank you...........George......Email: georgej05@bigpond.com |
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Schubert's Serenade (English words) From: Felipa Date: 09 Jun 21 - 04:32 PM Have you come across any recordings of Schubert's Serenade where is is given a more folky or more funky treatment? I found a couple for Die Fiorelle (a poem by Christian Schubart set to music by Franz Schubert). I was searching because when I heard Die Fiorelle sung, as it usually is, by a classically trained singer, I thought "that would make a good 'folk' song." |
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