Marvellous Error Vocal Solo & Piano

Marvellous Error

Vocal/piano score
PEL3002-Vocal Solo and Piano

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PEL3002-IP

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Instrumentation / Accompaniment

A SETTING OF ANTONIO MACHADO'S POEM FOR MEZZO-SOPRANO AND PIANO WITH OPTIONAL BASS

This piece begins with an atmospheric, dreamy feel that transitions into a more straightforward groove and ultimately builds at the words "a fiery sun was giving light inside my heart" before returning to the theme for the closing words "I dreamt that it was God here inside my heart."

    Video
    'Marvellous Error', comp. Halley, performed by Theresa Thomason and Paul Halley
    Notes

    Included on the recording "Sound Over All Waters” with Theresa Thomason and Keramion Singers, directed by Paul Halley (PEL1001)

    Marvellous Error

    Words: “Last Night, As I Was Sleeping” by Antonio Machado; translated by Robert Bly
    Music: Paul Halley (1952 - )

     

    Last night, as I was sleeping,
    I dreamt - marvellous error! -
    that a spring was breaking
    out in my heart.

    I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
    Oh water, are you coming to me,
    water of a new life
    that I have never drunk?

    Last night, as I was sleeping,
    I dreamt - marvellous error! -
    that I had a beehive
    here inside my heart.

    And the golden bees
    were making white combs
    and sweet honey
    from my old failures.

    Last night, as I was sleeping,
    I dreamt - marvellous error! -
    that a fiery sun was giving
    light inside my heart.

    It was fiery because I felt
    warmth as from a hearth,
    and sun because it gave light
    and brought tears to my eyes.

    Last night, as I was sleeping,
    I dreamt - marvellous error! -
    that it was God 
    here inside my heart.


     

    Catalogue number
    PEL3002
    Duration
    04'30"
    Difficulty
    Uses / Season / Theme