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You Gather Things To You - by Paul Halley
Poema XII (Para Mi Corazón)
by Pablo Neruda
Publication Details
Catalogue Number -
PEL2092 SATB
Voicing/Instrumentation -
SATB Choir with
Organ accompaniment
Level of Difficulty -
Easy
Uses/Season -
Concert,
Wedding
Perusal score pdf can be viewed while listening
simultaneously to audio track below.
Duration -
4:15 mins
Pages Music -
7 pages - 12 page booklet
Format -
SATB/organ
choral octavo
Copyright Year - 2014
SATB perusal - page
1 of 7
Description/Remarks
PEL2092 "You Gather Things To You"
A simple and graceful setting of Pablo Neruda's beautiful love poem,
"Poema XII"
(Para Mi Corazón), in the
English translation by W. S. Merwin "Poem XII (Your Breast Is Enough For
My Heart). The magical, etheral, almost surreal quality of Neruda's imagery and
metaphor are allowed to shine in this simple, direct setting by
Paul Halley. Sopranos and altos alternate phrases with the tenors and
basses in a lovely dialogue expressing yearning and devotion. This is a piece from the heart
to grace occasions where love is the theme.
Composed for Elizabeth Crowninshield Race Rogers and Mark
Alexander Wright in honour of their wedding, September 13, 2014.
Recorded for the
Pelagos double CD set
In The
Wide Awe And Wisdom
PEL1006 CD
Youtube - Time 4:15
You Gather Things To You Words: Pablo Neruda trans. W.S.
Merwin Music: P. Halley
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Texts
You Gather Things To You (musical setting in English)
Para mi corazón basta tu pecho, para tu libertad bastan mis alas. Desde mi boca llegará hasta el cielo lo que estaba dormido sobre tu alma.
Es en ti la ilusión de cada día. Llegas como el rocío a las corolas. Socavas el horizonte con tu ausencia. Eternamente en fuga como la ola.
He dicho que cantabas en el viento como los pinos y como los mástiles. Como ellos eres alta y taciturna. Y entristeces de pronto como un viaje.
Acogedora como un viejo camino. Te pueblan ecos y voces nostálgicas. Yo desperté y a veces emigran y huyen pájaros que dormían en tu alma.
‘Poema
XII’ (Para Mi Corazón) by Pablo Neruda
From the collection 'Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion
desesperada'. Used by permission of The Neruda Foundation, Santiago, Chile (S.C.D)
All rights reserved. Translation (musical setting is in English):
Your breast is enough for my heart, and my wings for your
freedom. What was sleeping above your soul will rise Out of my
mouth to heaven.
In you is the illusion of each day. You
arrive like the dew on the cupped flowers. You undermine the horizon
with your absence. Eternally in flight like the wave.
I have
said that you sang in the wind like the pines and like the masts.
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once,
like a voyage.
You gather things to you like an old road. You
are peopled with echoes and nostalgic voices. I awoke and at times
birds fled and migrated that had been sleeping in your soul.
