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black_siren and I had a brain wave while playing on MSN today. And I made icons.Take, share, and credit! SV caps courtesy of
oxoniensis and Kryptonsite.Examples:
from Gretchen am Spinnrade (Schubert)
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from Ruhe, ruhe meine Seele (Strauss)
5.
from Sure on this shining night (Barber)
from Après un rêve (Fauré)
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from Intorno all'idol mio (Cesti)
15.
from Seit ich ihn gesehen (Schumann)
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from Non t'amo pìu (Tosti)
Translations and brief explanations:
1. "I can never find peace again", text by Goethe. This is from an intense and tragic lied by Schubert about a woman who has been betrayed and left pregnant and outcast by her lover.
2. "My peace is gone", from the same song.
3. "The whole world is turned to gall", from the same song.
4., 5. "Peace, peace my soul," from a lied by Strauss.
6. From a song by American composer Samuel Barber. It's a song all about the silence and mysticism of a winter's night.
7.-12. "Return, (o) radiant one" or simply "radiant one" when only one word. From a gorgeous and sad song by Fauré, a person mourning a loved one after having a dream that the beloved was still with them. Clark is radiant, but the 'one' referred to in the song is actually the night that brought the dream.
13. "O mysterious nuit." The last line of the song.
14. "Breathe, just breathe". If you recognize the title of this aria, it might be because I used it way back when in a SV fic. The singer implores gentle winds to breathe on her sleeping lover.
15. "my darling, who sleeps". From the same song.
16., 17. "Since I (first) saw him". From a song cycle actually called "Frauenliebe und -leben", this is the first song in the cycle and is about a young girl who has just met the man she will eventually marry. She is singing about how her world has changed since she first laid eyes on her beloved, and everything else seems pale and unimportant by comparison.
18. "I don't love you anymore", but it sounds so much more elegant in Italian. Plus, the look on Clark's face... *breaks*
- Mood:
artistic
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Comments
And I actually understood 4 and 5. I credit having to memorize the first verses of Stille Nacht and Ein Feste Burg in my one year of German in high school.
Love the text you used for all these icons. Thanks for sharing them with us.
It looks like Lex, but it's not! Weird, huh? I was searching the word 'depression' and that came up.
They are the good crack.
That last one is so hurty!