Villanelle by Cecile Chaminade
Arranged for Flute and Piano by Loren Stroud
Published by International Music Company
Includes piano score and flute part
Originally a work for voice and piano from 18994, set to a poem by Édouard Guinand:
The splendid wheat has been gathered in, There are celebrations in the fields and the village,
Every girl is wearing a blue cornflower in her bodice, There are celebrations in the fields and the village!
The young people will dance this evening, In the long avenue: And beneath the starry night sky
How hands will seek one another out this evening,
In the long avenue! This evening, dance until day, To the merry sounds of your accordion!
Young boys and girls, Sing your songs of love, To the merry sounds of your accordion!
Without constraint and without remorse, Become drunk with youth: Gloominess is for the dead, Happiness for the living, Become drunk with youth!
Dance until day, There are celebrations in the fields and the village!
Every girl is wearing a blue cornflower in her bodice, there are celebrations in the fields and the village!
