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23 May 01 - 12:40 AM (#468421) Subject: Santa Lucia (in Italian) 2nd verse on From: CRANKY YANKEE I know the first verse to Santa Lucia, "Sul Mare Lucica, lastro D'Argento, etc." But have been unable to find more than that in any of my Books. I have a lot of Friends from Bologna who work here (in my hometown,Newport Rhode Island) TheY mostly operate Restaurants specializing in Northern Italian Cooking. VERY GOOD STUFF. The also have a sailing school and a Karate Dojo (an extension of the "Kodokan" in Bologna) There are about 40 of them AND NOT ONE OF THEM KNOWS ANY MORE THAN ONE VERSE TO SANTA LUCIA. |
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23 May 01 - 12:43 AM (#468425) Subject: ADD: Santa Lucia From: Sorcha Is this it? Santa Lucia
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23 May 01 - 12:48 AM (#468430) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) 2nd verse o From: katlaughing Jody, I posted them in that old thread you refreshed where you first mentioned them. The German one. kat |
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23 May 01 - 01:06 AM (#468442) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) 2nd verse o From: CRANKY YANKEE Sorch and Kat: Thank you, Mili Grazzie, Spaceibo, Danka, Doomo Arigato Gozaimashita, and last, but not least, Mucho muchos Gracias. Love and kisses, Jody. Did anyone ever translate "O sole Mio" for you? It's got to be the most eloquent love song I know. |
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19 Jul 06 - 06:22 AM (#1787128) Subject: RE: Sul Mare Lucica - All Italian From: GUEST,Sal Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy) 1849 transcribed and published by Teodoro Cottrau (1827–79) lyrics: Sul mare Lucica, l'astro dargento - Placida e londa, prospero e il vento Venite alagile, barchetta mia - Santa Lucia - Santa Lucia Con questo zephiro, cosi so ave - O come bello star su la nave Su passagieri, venite via - Santa Lucia - Santa Lucia In fra le tende, bandir la cena - in una sera, cosi serena Che non domanda, che non desia - Santa Lucia - Santa Lucia Mare si placido, vento si caro - scordar fa i triboli, al marinaro Eva gridando, con allegria - Santa Lucia - Santa Lucia O dolce Napoli, o suol beato - ove sorridere, volle il creato tu se li impero, dell armonia - Santa Lucia - Santa Lucia Or che tardate, bella e la sera - spira unaretta, fresca e leggera Venite allagile, barchetta mia - Santa Lucia - Santa Lucia |
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19 Jul 06 - 02:15 PM (#1787452) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Genie Sal, you are right, it's "agile," not "argine," in the chorus, and it's spelled "all' agile." And the chorus uses the singlular "barchetta mia," not the plural "barchette mie." Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy) Original Italian melody by Teodoro Cottrau, 1850 Sul mare luccica l'astro d'argento (On the sea the silver star shines) Placida é l'onda, prospero é il vento (Calm is the wave, the wind is growing*) (Repeat verse) Chorus: Venite all'agile, barchetta mia. (Come swiftly, my little boat. Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia (Saint Lucy, Saint Lucy). |
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19 Jul 06 - 02:35 PM (#1787470) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Genie Sorcha, the link you posted has the same lyrics I found at this site, with a recording by Enrico Caruso that you can hear: http://www.italiamerica.org/SantaLucia.htm It gives the songwriting credit to "T. Cottrau - Longo 1835" and says the song was the first Neapolitan song to be translated into Italian. |
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19 Jul 06 - 02:41 PM (#1787475) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Sorcha posted a link to the original words and melody, ingeb.org, 23 May 01. |
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19 Jul 06 - 02:52 PM (#1787484) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Genie There seem to be some discrepancies in either author attribution, original publication dates, punctuation, etc. Some of that may be due to the song being translated at different times. It's not a bad idea to have links to more than one site, or the actual lyrics posted, because links may not work a few months down the line. |
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19 Jul 06 - 02:56 PM (#1787489) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Genie The lyrics are also here in a thread titled Italian Folksongs Thread #3465 Message #606004 Posted By: Genie 07-Dec-01 - 06:46 PM Thread Name: Italian Folksongs Subject: Lyr Add: SANTA LUCIA (in Italian, Swedish, German,
A site referred to in another thread gave me this: |
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19 Jul 06 - 03:42 PM (#1787540) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Kaleea Thank you, Genie!! It's been quite a while since I've heard "Himself" singing Santa Lucia. And to think some folks have only heard it once in their lives when Gomer Pyle sang it. |
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19 Jul 06 - 11:13 PM (#1787877) Subject: Lyr. Add: SANTA LUCIA (Neapolitan folk) From: Q (Frank Staplin) The history of Santa Lucia is complex- a Neapolitan folk song, transcribed by Teodoro Cottrau (a classically trained musician), the music commonly heard is a revision of the folk tune by A. Longo (a classical musician known for his revisions of Scarlatti sonatas). The words most commonly heard, those sung by Caruso, "Sul mare luccicica....," credited to Cottrau and Longo (spelling at the ingeb site linked by Sorcha is correct). The Caruso recording is available on several websites. The following is one Neapolitan folk song version. There also is an Italian 'translation' which I will post tomorrow. If anyone can translate the Neapolitan, please post! Lyr. Add: SANTA LUCIA (Neapolitan folk song) Comme se fricceca la luna chiena... lo mare ride, Il'aria è serena... Vuje che facite 'mmiez'a la via? Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Stu viento frisco fa risciatare, chi vò' spassarse jè pe' mare... E' pronta e lesta la varca mia... Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! La tènna è posta pe' fá na cena... e quanno stace la panza chiena, non c'è la mínema melanconia! Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Pòzzo accostare la varca mia? Sanya Lucia! Santa Lucia! Midi and mp3 (very slow!). The website has 549 canzoni napoletane! Index to songs beginning with S- http://www.medivia.it/italiano/canzoni/canzoni.asp?lettera=s S Lyrics Index, letter A: http://medivia.sele.it/italiano/canzoni/index.htm Santa Lucia |
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20 Jul 06 - 02:56 AM (#1787963) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Genie Molto grazie, O! |
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20 Jul 06 - 12:38 PM (#1788337) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: leeneia I don't understand how Santa Lucia comes into it. Of course, I know that it refers to Saint Lucy, but in the song, is it a place name? Is it her day? Is she the singer's patron saint? What is the connection? |
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20 Jul 06 - 01:28 PM (#1788384) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Fliss SANTA LUCIA, one of the most famous Neapolitan songs, is an ode dedicated to the city of Naples and to the Santa Lucia area which faces the Gulf of Naples. The lyrics are the words of a boatman describing the view from Santa Lucia: It is night and the moon is reflected in the sea. He tells us of the indescribable magic that one can feel while watching the boats in the sea; how they sail softly, driven by a gentle breezes. The boatman invites people to board his boat saying how you will admire the sea and the city of Naples. Naples is described beautifully in this song as, "suolo beato, ove sorridere volle il Creato" (holy soil, smiled upon by the Creator). The Santa Lucia quarter is called "impero dell'armonia" (the empire of harmony). http://www.italiamerica.org/SantaLucia.htm Surprising what a search of the internet comes up with... |
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20 Jul 06 - 01:29 PM (#1788386) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Fliss ps I learned it at school many years ago and sang it for Italian guests at the Irish music session at the Boat Inn a couple of years ago! |
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20 Jul 06 - 02:34 PM (#1788447) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Fliss is correct. Many years ago a Catholic priest told me that the saint's name is Lucia, not Lucy. Around the Mediterranean, many neighborhoods, districts, towns, restaurants, streets, etc., are named for saints. Boats are also named for saints, but in this case it is the district that is named. I believe every Catholic country in Europe and South America has a town or village named Santa Lucia. Italy was a complex of independent kingdoms and principalities until late in the 19th c., and referring to a Neapolitan song as Italian may be politically correct in Rome but would bring censure where Neapolitan still is spoken within a region which once separate until 1860; the Kingdom of Naples, Kingdom of Sicily, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In the region there are other local dialects. A unified Italy was formed in 1861, with The Two Sicilies contributing funds exceeding the combined total of the others joining together. Here is the Italian translation of the Neapolitan folk song I posted 19 Jul 06. Lyr. Add: SANTA LUCIA (in Italian) (Translated from Neapolitan folk song) Come è bella la luna piena... il mare ride, l'aria è serena... Voi che fate per strada? Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Questo vento fresco, fa stare bene, chi vuole spassarsela andando per mare... E' pronta e veloce la mia barca... Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! La tovaglia è stesa pronta per la cena... e quando lo stomaco è pieno, non c'è assolutamente malinconia! Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Posso accostare la mia barca? Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Index |
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20 Jul 06 - 09:53 PM (#1788784) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Lyr. Add: BARCAROLA "SUL MARE LUCIA" (Santa Lucia) Words T. Cottreu, Music A. Longo) Sul mare luccica l'astro d'argento. Placida è l'onda; prospero è il vento; Venite all'agile Barchetta mia; Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Con questo zeffiro così soave, oh! com'è bello star sù la nave! Su passagieri, venite via; Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! In' fra le tende bandir la cena, in una sera così serena. Chi non demanda, chi non decia; Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Mare sì placido, vento sì caro, scordar fa i triboli al marinaro. (marinaio) E va gridando con allegria: Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! O dolce Napoli, O suol beato, Ove sorridere, Volle il creato; :Tu sei l'impero Dell' armonia, Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Or che tardate? bella è la sera. Spira un'auretta fresca e leggiera. Venite all'agile barchetta mia; Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Not having Italian sheet music, the above has been taken and corrected from several texts printed 1871 and later, and internet posts. All are American and possess little errors. I hope this text is close to correct, but if anyone has an Italian score by Cottreu, please check. Most of the mistakes in those posted above are corrected, however. I have several English translations that can be sung to the tune and will post a couple. They are all of the four most commonly sung verses. |
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21 Jul 06 - 12:26 AM (#1788877) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: leeneia Thanks. |
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21 Jul 06 - 09:36 PM (#1789563) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Q (Frank Staplin) SANTA LUCIA (ENGLISH) (Words Emily Tilghman, 1871) Silvery starlight Shines o'er the blue sea, Calm are the billows, Gentle the soft breeze. Come, in my bark away Swift o'er the quiet sea, Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Rock'd by a zephyr, Gentle as is this, Over the waters, What dreamy sweet bliss! Haste, joyous company, Out o'er the quiet sea, Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! O Naples, fairest one! O blessed land Where all creation smiles, Joyous and bland! Kingdom of song divine! Music's own realm is thine! Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! "Santa Lucia, Barcarola populare," English words by Miss Emily Tilghman, 1871, sheet music pub. by Andre and Co., Philadelphia. Well, typical of the period, if not ours. The song in many 'covers' was extremely popular from about 1850 to 1880. SANTA LUCIA (ENGLISH) (Words Tho's Oliphant, Arr. A Lopes) Over the rippling sea Twilight is closing, Over the flow'ry lea Flocks are reposing; Haste then, O lady fair, Come down to me love! Fondly I'm waiting, Waiting for thee, love! (Haste then, O lady fair Come down to me love! Fondly I'm waiting, Waiting for thee, love!) ( Repetition of this type seems to have been popular). List how the evening air Softly is blowing Mark how the swelling tide Onward is flowing; See where my bounding bark Longs to be free, love! 'Tis only waiting, Waiting for thee, love! Sheet music, copyright 1884 by A. Lopes, words by Tho's Oliphant, pub. A. G. Slade, Brooklyn. "Serenade by T. Cottran" (sic). Both of the above from American Memory. SANTA LUCIA (English) The silver star shines on the sea, The winds are calm, the wind is favorable Come to my quick little boat! Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! With this west wind so gentle, Oh, how wonderful it is to be at sea! Come passengers, come away! Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Oh sweet Naples, oh blessed sun, Where creation wished to smile! You are the command of harmony! Come passengers, come away! Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! Now why do you delay? The evening is beautiful A cool and light wind is blowing Come to my quick little boat! Santa Lucia! Santa Lucia! http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/lucylied.htm SANTA LUCIA (ENGLISH) Anon. Now 'neath the silvery moon, Ocean is glowing, O'er the calm billow, Soft winds are blowing. Here balmy zephyrs blow, Pure joys invite us, And as we gently row, All things delight us. Hark how the sailor's cry Joyously echoes nigh: Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia! Home of fair poesy, Realm of pure harmony, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia! When o'er my waters, light winds are playing Thy spell can soothe us, All care allaying; To thee sweet Napoli, what charms are given; Where smiles creation, toil blessed by heaven. Hark how the sailor's cry Joyously echoes nigh: Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia! Home of fair poesy, Realm of pure harmony, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia! The most professional of these, but lost is the idea of renting seats on his barque to passengers who wish to enjoy the evening on the sea. http://ingeb.org/songs/santaluc.html SANTA LUCIA (ENGLISH) O, moon, whose mystic veil, From the skies falling, Gilds sighing wavelets pale, To our hearts calling; Glorious the summer night, Sea-strand and billows white, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia! Zephyrs are never at rest O'er the sea bringing Coolness to brow and breast, Far away singing. Still waits my bark for thee, Come, dream and drift with me, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia! What greater joy can be In our love-dreaming, Than thus to drift with thee O'er wavelets gleaming? Bride borne o'er summer sea, Naples, thy pride to be, Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia! Anon., p. 333, "Heart Songs," 1909, The Chapple Pub. Co. for World Syndicate Co. Enough already. |
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22 Jul 06 - 06:50 AM (#1789762) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: Fliss Hi Q I think we sang the last English version youve posted at school. fxx |
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23 Jul 06 - 10:45 AM (#1790675) Subject: Lyr Add: SANKTA LUCIA (Swedish) From: Jim Dixon By the way, there is also a Swedish song called SANKTA LUCIA, sung to the same tune. The lyrics are not a translation of the Italian song. It is traditionally sung on St. Lucia day, December 13, an important holiday in Swedish custom. According to Wikipedia, "Lucy is the only saint celebrated by the Lutheran Swedes, Finns, Danes, and Norwegians, in celebrations that retain many pre-Christian elements of a midwinter light festival." And "Before the reform of Gregorian calendar in the 16th century, St. Lucy's Day fell on the winter solstice." Natten går tunga fjät rund gård och stuva; kring jord, som sol förlät, skuggorna ruva. Då i vårt mörka hus, stiger med tända ljus, Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia. Natten går stor och stum nu hörs dess vingar i alla tysta rum sus som av vingar. Se, på vår tröskel står vitklädd med ljus i hår Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia. Mörkret ska flykta snart ur jordens dalar så hon ett underbart ord till oss talar. Dagen ska åter ny stiga ur rosig sky Sankta Lucia, Sankta Lucia |
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01 Aug 06 - 10:45 PM (#1799457) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) From: GUEST,ILION TROYA, Bass Thanks, erudite friends, this is a treasure. I remember how it sounded in Neapolitan dialect, on a 78 rpm from the 50's. Now that I am fluent in Italian, it's great to savor the beauty of the lyrics. More than on that recording, I think. The English versions are all precious and unique. Besides, delicious to sing! (I hope my neighbors liked.) Thanks again. |
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11 Dec 09 - 01:50 PM (#2786279) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Santa Lucia (in Italian) 2nd verse o From: ard mhacha Josef Locke in an English rendition, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CtHfJkGD1w |