The Language of Flowers

The Language of Flowers
Musica
Compositore	Edward Elgar
Tonalità	re maggiore
Tipo di composizione	Canzone
Epoca di composizione	1872
Dedica	Lucy (sorella di Elgar)
Durata media	4 min.
Organico	Pianoforte
Testo inglese
Autore	James Gates Percival
Manuale

The Language of Flowers (Il linguaggio dei fiori) è una canzone inedita tratta da una poesia del geologo e poeta americano James Gates Percival, con musica scritta dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar quando aveva solo quattordici anni.^[1]

Storia

La canzone è datata 29 maggio 1872, con la scritta "di Edward W. Elgar", con "parole di Percival"^[2] (inizialmente si pensava che fosse Elgar stesso) e dedicata "a mia sorella Lucy per il suo compleanno".

Versi

(IT)

«In Eastern lands they talk withflowers

And they tell in a garland their loves and cares;

Each blossom that blooms in their garden bower's,

With its leaves a mystic language bears.

The rose is a sign of joy and love,

Young blushing love in its earliest dawn,

And the mildness that suits the gentle dove,

From the myrtle's snowy flower's is drawn.

Innocence gleams in the lily's bell,

Pure as the heart in its native heaven.

Fame's bright star and glory's swell

By the glossy leaf of the bay are given.

The silent, soft and humble heart,

In the violet's hidden sweetness breathes,

And the tender soul that cannot part,

In a twine of evergreen fondly wreathes.

The cypress that daily shades the grave,

Is sorrow that moans her bitter lot,

And faith that a thousand ills can brave,

Speaks in thy blue leaves "forget-me-not".

Then gather a wreath from the garden bowers,

And tell the wish of thy heart in flowers.»

(EN)

«Nelle terre orientali parlano con i fiori

E raccontano in una ghirlanda i loro amori e le loro preoccupazioni;

Ogni fiore che fiorisce nel loro pergolato da giardino,

Con le sue foglie porta un linguaggio mistico.

La rosa è un segno di gioia e amore,

Giovane amore arrossito nella sua prima alba,

E la mitezza che si adatta alla dolce colomba,

Dal fiore innevato del mirto è disegnato.

L'innocenza brilla nella campana del giglio,

Puro come il cuore nel suo paradiso nativo.

La stella luminosa della fama e l'ondata di gloria

Dalla foglia lucida dell'alloro sono dati.

Il cuore silenzioso, morbido e umile,

Nella dolcezza nascosta della viola respira,

E l'anima tenera che non può separarsi,

In un filo di ghirlande affettuose sempreverdi.

Il cipresso che quotidianamente ombreggia la tomba,

È il dolore che geme il suo destino amaro,

E la fede che mille mali possono sfidare,

Parla nelle tue foglie blu "non ti scordar di me".

Quindi raccogli una corona dai giardinieri,

E dì il desiderio del tuo cuore in fiori.»

Note

^ Young, pp. 263-264, and an example
^ McVeagh, p.3 "Elgar composed the song 'The Language of Lowers' (1872) when he was not quite fifteen. The verses are by the American poet and botanist, James Gates Percival."

Bibliografia

Banfield, Stephen, Sensibility and English Song: Critical studies of the early 20th century (Cambridge University Press, 1985) ISBN 0-521-37944-X
Kennedy, Michael, Portrait of Elgar (Oxford University Press, 1968) ISBN 0-19-315414-5
Diana M. McVeagh, Elgar the Music Maker, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84383-295-9.
Young, Percy M., Elgar O.M. (Collins, 1955)

Collegamenti esterni

(EN) Spartiti o libretti di The Language of Flowers, su International Music Score Library Project, Project Petrucci LLC.

V · D · M Edward Elgar
Musiche di scena e balletto	Diarmuid and Grania (1901) · The Crown of India (1911–12) · The Starlight Express (1915–16) · The Sanguine Fan (1917)
Orchestrale	The Wand of Youth (1869–1907) · Powick Asylum Music (1879–1884) · Sevillana (1884) · Froissart (1890) · Sursum corda (1894) · Serenata per archi (1894) · Imperial March (1897) · Tre danze bavaresi (1898) · Enigma Variations (1899) · Cockaigne (1900–01) · Pomp and Circumstance (1901–30) · Dream Children (1902) · Introduzione e allegro (1904–05) · In the South, Alassio (1904–05) · Sinfonia n. 1 (1907–08) · Sinfonia n. 2 (1909–11) · Falstaff (1913) · Sospiri (1914) · Carillon (1914) · Polonia (1915) · Une voix dans le désert (1915) · Le drapeau belge (1917) · Nursery Suite (1930) · The Severn Suite (1930) · Sinfonia n. 3 (1932–34)
Sinfonia concertante	Concerto per violino (1901–10) · Romance (1910) · Concerto per violoncello (1918–19)
Da camera/strumentale	Duetto per trombone e contrabbasso (1887) · Idylle (1883) · Salut d'Amour (1888) · Chanson de Nuit (1897) · Chanson de Matin (1899) · Sonata per organo (1898) · Concert Allegro (1901) · Sonata per violino (1918) · Quartetto per archi (1918) · Quintetto per pianoforte (1918–19)
Vocale/corale orchestrale	The Black Knight (1889–93) · From the Bavarian Highlands (1895–96) · Il sogno di Geronte (1899–1900) · The Kingdom (1901–06) · Coronation Ode (1902) · Land of Hope and Glory (1902) · The Apostles (1902–03) · The Music Makers (1912) · The Spirit of England (1915–17)
Vocale	"The Language of Flowers" (1872) · "The Self Banished" (1875) · "A War Song" (1884) Seven Lieder (1885-1894): "Like to the Damask Rose" (1892), "Queen Mary's Song" (1889), "A Song of Autumn" (1892), "The Poet's Life" (1892), "Through the Long Days" (1885), "Rondel" (1894), "The Shepherd's Song" (1892) "Is she not passing fair?" (1886) · "As I laye a-thynkynge" (1888) · "The Wind at Dawn" (1888) · "The Shepherd's Song" (1892) · "After" (1900) · "A Song of Flight" (1900) Sea Pictures (1899): "Sea Slumber Song", "In Haven", "Sabbath Morning at Sea", "Where Corals Lie", "The Swimmer" (1897–99) "Dry those fair, those crystal eyes" (1899) · The Pipes of Pan (1899) · "Always and Everywhere" (1901) · "Come, Gentle Night!" (1901) · "In the Dawn" (1901) · "Speak, Music!" (1901) · "There are seven that pull the thread" (1901) · "In Moonlight" ((1904) · "Follow the Colours" (1907) · "Pleading" (1908) · "A Child Asleep" (1909) · "Oh, soft was the song" (1910) · "Was it some Golden Star?" (1910) · "Twilight" (1910) · "The Chariots of the Lord" (1914) · "Fight for Right" (1916) · "Inside the Bar" (1917) The Fringes of the Fleet (1916): "The Lowestoft Boat", "Fate's Discourtesy", "Submarines", "The Sweepers" Pageant of Empire (1924): "The Blue Mountains", "Shakespeare's Kingdom", "The Islands", "The Heart of Canada", "Sailing Westward", "Merchant Adventurers", "The Immortal Legions", "A Song of Union", "The Immortal Legions" "XTC" (1930)
Dal nome di Elgar	Elgar Birthplace Museum · Elgar Society · Altopiani di Elgar
Raffigurazioni culturali	Elgar (film)
Famiglia	August Jaeger · Caroline Alice Elgar
Voci correlate	Ivor Atkins · Michael Kennedy · Jerrold Northrop Moore · Festival di Birmingham · Broadheath
Composizioni di Edward Elgar

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 307214656

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