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13.   Sweet Dream     (Dulce sono)

(Follas Novas, 1880)

Musical Adaptation

"Dulce Sono" was set to music by distinguished Galician composer Juan Montes Capón who changed the title to Doce Sono, one of his Six Galician Ballads. He entered this ballad together with Negra Sombra in the 1892 Musical Competition of Pontevedra organized by the Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País (Economic Society of Friends of the Land) and won first prize. The composition is performed on the first entry below. Marta Sancho Andrés and Jorge Abreu adapt the piece to clarinet and piano in the second entry. Singer-songwriter Graciela Pistocchi Pereira offers her own composition on the third.

Carmen Subrido Tubío and Xoán Elías Castiñeira Varela

Marta Sancho Andrés and Jorge Abreu (clarinet and piano).

Graciela Pistocchi Pereira

Baixaron os ánxeles
Adonde ela estaba,
Fixéronlle un leito
Cas prácidas alas,
E lonxe a levano
Na noite calada.

Cando a alba do dia
Tocóu a campana,
E no alto da torre
Cantou a calandria,
Os ánxeles mesmos,
Pregadas as alas
—"¿Por que, marmurano,
Por que despertala...?"

Came down the angels
To where she lay,
They made her a bed
With the placid wings
And took her far away
In the quiet night.

When the bell rang
The break of day
And the lark sang
Atop the belfry
The selfsame angels,
Wings folded,
Murmured, "Why?
Why wake her?"