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Esta Tarde, mi Bien (This Evening, My Love)
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SATBB a cappella
Secular text in Spanish by Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz, trans. Muriel Kittel
Difficulty rating (1-5): 4 This piece was developed at the Oxford Summer Institute in 2001 with the Princeton Singers directed by Steven Sametz. It is dedicated to my soulmate Sherri. It won the Cambridge (MA)
Madrigal Singers composition contest and was
premiered by them in a performance at the
MacDowell Colony in May 2004.
TEXT
Esta tarde,
mi bien, cuando te hablaba
como en tu
rostro y tus acciones vía
que con
palábras no te persuadía,
que el
corazón me vises deseaba;
y Amor, que
mis intentos ayudaba,
venció lo
que imposible parecía:
pues entre
el llanto que el dolor
vertía,
el corazón
deshecho destilaba.
Baste ya de
rigors, mi bien, baste;
no te
atormenten más cellos
tiranos,
ni el vil
recelo tu quietud
contraste
con sombras
necias, con indicios
vanos,
pues ya en
líquido humor viste y
tocaste
mi corazón
deshecho entre tus manos.
translation: This evening when I spoke to you, my dear, When in your face and gestures I perceived That I could not persuade you with my words, Then I desired that you should see my heart. And love, that came to help my purposes, Accomplished that which seemed impossible, For there among the tears that sorrow spilled Was drop by drop my wasting heart distilled. Enough of harshness now, my dear, enough; Nor let cruel jealousy torment you more, Nor base suspicion attack your virtue now With foolish shadows, empty evidence, Since here in watery medium you have seen And felt within your hands my wasted heart.
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