El Nou Món fa el seu camí (Antonín Dvořák)
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- Editor: Carles Vela i Aulesa (added 2005-09-14). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 51 kbytes Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: El Nou Món fa el seu camí
Composer: Antonín Dvořák
Arranger: Constantí Sotelo i Paradela
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Cantatas
Language: Catalan
Instruments: none
Published:
Description:
External websites: [1]
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Original text and translations
Catalan text
- Quan el sol ja ha sortit has perdut el temps,
- ja el dia s'ha acabat, cal recomençar.
- Mira ací al davant, on és el demà,
- llibre del teu destí escrit per tes mans.
- Alça els teus ulls al cel on el dia mor.
- Contempleu nostre gran nou món fent camí,
- el nou món fent camí, el nou món fent camí.
- Tot el món cantarà amb sa veu potent,
- braus minyons fets esclaus: escolteu el clam:
- Alt el front, ferms els trets, i sempre altius,
- en brillar la gran llum, fins que fuig la nit.
- En ton cor, tot de cop, ja surt el teu crit:
- Som aquí tot un nou món fa son camí,
- un nou món fa camí, nou món fa son camí.
Note by Mick Swithinbank:
- An American pupil of Dvorak, William Arms Fisher, set this well-known melody from the Second Movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony to words in the style of a Negro spiritual. The Catalan words (El Nou Món - The New World) are not the same, but Fisher's original words - or most of them - could be used instead. Several different versions of his text can easily be found on the web, but a facsimile of the 1922 edition for voice and piano published by Cawthornes of Melbourne, with a preface by William Arms Fisher himself, posted on the web by the National Library of Australia (nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an7721849), has this presumably authoritative version:
English translation
- Goin' home, goin' home,
- I'm a-goin' home,
- Quiet-like, some still day,
- I'm jes' goin' home.
- It's not far, jes' close by,
- Through an open door;
- Work all done, care laid by,
- Gwine to fear no more.
- Mother's there, 'spectin' me,
- Father's waitin' too;
- Lots o' folk gather'd there,
- All the friends I knew.
- Home, home, I'm goin' home.
- Nothin' lost, all's gain,
- No more fret nor pain,
- No more stumblin' on the way,
- No more longin' for the day,
- Gwine to roam no more!
- Mornin' star lights the way,
- Res'less dream all done;
- Shadows gone, break o' day,
- Real life jes' begun.
- Dere's no break, ain't no end,
- Jes' a-livin' on,
- Wide awake with a smile,
- Goin' on and on.
- Goin' home, goin' home,
- I'm jes' goin' home;
- It's not far, jes' close by
- Through an open door.
- I'm jes' goin' home,
- Goin' home.
