Nocturnal (Nin, set by E. Varèse) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Basses:
 Wa ya you you
 wa wa yao
 ya ha ha ha you
 
 You belong to the night, you belong to the night, etc.
 
Soprano:
 I rise
 I always rise after the crucifixion
 
Basses:
 Dark! oh ... hm
 
Soprano:
 o a o a oo a oo oo hm
 Bread and the wafer
 
Basses:
 Womb and seed and egg
 wailing of the unborn
 
Soprano:
 Perfume and sperm I have lost my brother ah
 
Basses:
 oomp'ts'oomp'ts, etc.
 It grows again
 faces in the windows
 one window without light
 oomp'ts'oomp'ts'oomp'ts
 
Soprano:
 Dark Dark Dark asleep asleep
 
Basses:
 Hm
        ha ha you hoo hoorn
 
Soprano:
 Floating floating again
 aoaoao
 oooo
 
Basses:
 Ha ha hm
 
Soprano:
 ppf
 
Basses:
 wha ho
 ya whoo whoo sh
 ga ra ya ga ra ya ga ra ha hoo
 ba you ba a ba ee ba ba you boo pss
 
Soprano:
 Crucifixion
 
Basses:
 Crucifixion
 Shadow of death
 
Soprano:
 I kissed his shadow

Note: phrases from Nin's The House of Incest, published 1936, and phonetic syllables by Varèse.

Input by Jeroen Scholten

Authorship

Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

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

Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

Date added to the website: 2003-11-20.

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