Songs

Tout gai!

by Maurice Ravel From 5 Mélodies populaires grecques (1904) 1904-1906

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Tout gai!
French source: Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi

Tout gai! gai, Ha, tout gai!
Belle jambe, tireli, qui danse;
Belle jambe, la vaisselle danse,
Tra la la la la …

So merry!
English translation © Richard Stokes

So merry,
Ah, so merry;
Lovely leg, tireli, that dances
Lovely leg, the crockery dances,
Tra la la.

Translation © Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)

Tout gai!
French source: Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi

So merry!
English source: Richard Stokes

Tout gai! gai, Ha, tout gai!
So merry,
Belle jambe, tireli, qui danse;
Ah, so merry;
Belle jambe, la vaisselle danse,
Lovely leg, tireli, that dances
Tra la la la la …
Lovely leg, the crockery dances,

Composer

Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor.  In the 1920s and 1930s he was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. He was one of the first composers to acknowledge the potential of recording in making…

Poet

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi

Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi was a music writer and critic, and promoter of musicians such as Franz Liszt and Modest Mussorgsky.

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