The Self Banished

The Self Banished
Musica
Compositore	Edward Elgar
Tonalità	sol maggiore
Tipo di composizione	Canzone
Epoca di composizione	1875
Pubblicazione	2019, John Morrison
Organico	soprano o tenore, pianoforte
Testo inglese
Autore	Edmund Waller
Epoca	1645
	Manuale

The Self Banished è una poesia scritta da Edmund Waller nel 1645 circa. Fu messa in musica dal compositore barocco John Blow nel 1700.^[1] È anche una delle prime canzoni scritte dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar. Composta nel 1875, appositamente per "soprano o tenore", non è stata pubblicata fino a poco tempo fa.

Versi

Blow mise in musica le strofe 1 e 2. Elgar aggiunse una strofa che inizia con la sua scrittura di "Absence".

«THE SELF-BANISHED

It is not that I love you less

Than when before your feet I lay:

But to prevent the sad increase

Of hopeless love, I keep away.

In vain! (alas!) for ev'ry thing

Which I have known belong to you,^[2]

Your form does to my fancy bring,

And makes my old wounds bleed anew.

Who in the Spring from the new Sun

Already has a fever got,

Too late begins those shafts to shun,

Which Phoebus through his veins has shot.

Too late he would the pain assuage,

And to shadows thick he doth retire;

About with him he bears the rage,^[3]

And in his tainted blood the fire.

Abscence is vain for ev'ry thing

That I have known belong to you,

Your form does to my fancy bring,

And makes my old wounds bleed anew.]*^[4]

But vow'd I have, and never must

Your banish'd servant trouble you;

For if I break, you may distrust^[5]

The vow I made to love you, too.»

Incisioni

Elgar: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Reinild Mees (piano)

Note

^ John Blow Amphion Angelicus, 1700, p.91
^ Note belong not belongs. It is the subjunctive of the verb.
^ Here Elgar substitutes "pain" for Waller's "rage"
^ This stanza was added by Elgar, with curious (mock-baroque?) spelling of "Absence"
^ Here Elgar puts "mistrust" for Waller's "distrust"

Collegamenti esterni

(EN) Spartiti o libretti di The Self Banished, su International Music Score Library Project, Project Petrucci LLC.

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[1] John Blow Amphion Angelicus, 1700, p.91

[2] Note belong not belongs. It is the subjunctive of the verb.

[3] Here Elgar substitutes "pain" for Waller's "rage"

[4] This stanza was added by Elgar, with curious (mock-baroque?) spelling of "Absence"

[5] Here Elgar puts "mistrust" for Waller's "distrust"

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