Title: Les Berceaux (Op. 23, No. 1)
Music: Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Text: Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907)
Free at Art Song Central (PDF files):
- PDF: Les berceaux
- Key: C Minor
- Range: C4 – G5
- Source: Modern French Songs
- PDF: Les berceaux
- Key: A Minor
- Range: A3 – E5
- Source: Modern French Songs
Elsewhere on the Internet:
- Transcribed at the Werner Icking Music Archive
- Key: PDF available in B♭ Minor
- Range: B♭3 – F5
- Finale 2005 source file also available to edit or transpose.
Mp3:
MIDI:
- Available at the Werner Icking Music Archive
Le long du Quai, les grands vaisseaux,
Que la houle incline en silence,
Ne prennent pas garde aux berceaux,
Que la main des femmes balance.Mais viendra le jour des adieux,
Car il faut que les femmes pleurent,
Et que les hommes curieux
Tentent les horizons qui leurrent!Et ce jour-là les grands vaisseaux,
Fuyant le port qui diminue,
Sentent leur masse retenue
Par l’âme des lointains berceaux.
- Recmusic.org has texts and translations.
Hi David,
I made the same error:
Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907)
should be
René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839-1907)
Odd name, isn’t it ?.
Wikipedia has him as René-François-Armand (Sully) Prudhomme (Paris, France, March 16, 1839 – Châtenay-Malabry, France, September 6, 1907)
He seems best known as Sully Prudhomme, and is usually credited that way, though I’m just going by my own experience. It is, however, one of the reasons I link to Wikipedia bios when possible, for a broader perspective.
(And why the comments section here is useful… Thanks for your input!)