Mandoline

Les donneurs de sérénades
Et les belles écouteuses
Échangent des propos fades
Sous les ramures chanteuses.

C'est Tircis et c'est Aminte,
Et c'est l'éternel Clitandre,
Et c'est Damis qui pour mainte
Cruelle [fait]1 maint vers tendre.

Leurs courtes vestes de soie,
Leurs longues robes à queues,
Leur élégance, leur joie
Et leurs molles ombres bleues,

Tourbillonent dans l'extase
D'une lune rose et grise,
Et la mandoline jase
Parmi les frissons de brise.

by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) , "Mandoline", from Fêtes galantes, no. 15, published 1869

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab (1881-1971) , "Fêtes galantes", 1932.
by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) , "Mandoline", 1890.
by Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) , "Mandoline"
by Gabriel Dupont (1878-1914) , "Mandoline", 1901.
by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) , "Mandoline", op. 58 no. 1 (1891), published 1891, from Cinq mélodies "De Venise", no. 1.
by Gabriel Grovlez (1879-1944) , "Mandoline"
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) , "Fêtes galantes", 1892.
by Paul Le Flem (1881-1984) , "Mandoline", published 1904, orchestrated 1912 [soprano or tenor and piano], from Quatre mélodies, no. 1.
by Bernard de Lisle (fl. 1906-10) , "Mandoline"
by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli (1882-1949) , "Mandoline"
by Irena Regina Poldowski, née Wieniawski (1880-1932) , "Mandoline", published 1911.
by Carlos Suffern (1901-1991) , "Mandoline", 1928. [soprano and piano]
by Jósef Szulc (1875-1956) , "Mandoline", op. 83 (Dix mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine) no. 10.

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