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En la cumbre, madre
Staff Notation • Secular, Folk songs
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En la cumbre, madre by Juan Pujol — Lyrics
En la cumbre, madre,
canta el ruyseñor
Si él de amores canta,
yo lloro de amor.
En la cumbre, madre,
al caer del sol
canta el pajarillo
con delgada voz
porque en sus entrañas
tiene lo que yo
Canta porque tiene
en su coraçón
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About En la cumbre, madre
Juan Pujol's En la cumbre, madre is a Spanish folk song for treble voices (soprano and alto). The text, a poignant lament of love and absence, finds the singer comparing her own sorrow to the songbird's melody. As the nightingale sings of love from the mountaintop at sunset, the singer weeps for her own love. Her heart, like the bird's, is consumed by the powerful force of 'tyrant love', leaving her to both live and die by its effects. The composition for treble voices, SAT and SST, suits the tender and expressive nature of the text, capturing the sweet melancholy of its devotional theme.
