Debussy Fêtes galantes Clair de lune

Debussy Fêtes galantes Clair de lune

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmants masques et bergamasques,
Jouant du luth et dansant, et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques!

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune.
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur,
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver, les oiseaux dans les arbres,
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.


Your soul is a chosen landscape
charmed by masquers and revellers
playing the lute and dancing and almost
sad beneath their fanciful disguises!

Even while singing, in a minor key,
of victorious love and fortunate living
they do not seem to believe in their happiness,
and their song mingles with the moonlight,

the calm moonlight, sad and beautiful,
which sets the birds in the trees dreaming,
and makes the fountains sob with ecstasy,
the tall slender fountains among the marble statues!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Clair
• de
• lune
• Veronique
• Gens
• Debussy

[ryofurue]

I agree about the tempo; it's almost perfect. Except for the "sangloter d'extase les jet d'eau, les grands jets d'eau" part, which is too rushed, to me. But, it's beautiful, by all means.

[pianohands05]

Beautiful....in my opinion, the tempo is perfect for the most part...

[jonhth]

much to fast...