One of Goa's top musicians, Roque Lazarus, sharing this work via the CC
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Frederick Noronha
Jul 1, 2021, 9:43:11 PM7/1/21
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This has been composed by TORQUATO DE FIGUEIREDO (1876-1948). Dr Jose Pereira, Micael Martins and Pe Antonio Da Costa (now in Arizona) describe his work thus: "In TORQUATO melancholy is at its deepest. Yet more than any composer except Paulo, he expresses the emotional exaltation of the Lotlli [Loutolim] style. His music seems to rise beyond the illuminated atmosphere into a blackened sky, against which the stars are sharply silhouetted. Torquato uses little imagery, but vividly. His sun rises all of a sudden and blots out the starlight. In Torquato’s masterpiece, the *Soglem mujem vido chintunum* -- a Lament Mando and one of the pinnacles of Goan Song -- there is a blackout on light. The only metaphor, taken from the Salve Regina ("Hail, Holy Queen"), is that of the world as a valley of tears ("pool of misery"). The song has the tenebrosity of doomsday, and as the principal melody sinks with grief, the contrapuntal one comes in on a note of suspense, as if the trumpet of doom were about to sound, and then vaults upwards into the realm of the resurrection".
Soglem mujem vido chintunum
1. Soglem mujem vido chintunum
Dukan bountam y aum-um
Sonsram' maka nam re konnom
Diucha' buzavonnom
2. Sonsar soglo dista re foro
Dukachem konddo
Konn punn maka nam sangtolo
Asa munn felizo
3. Devan maka rochil' tedonnom
Pol-llom y aum dukantum
Felecidade mellot kedonnom
Cabar zatrich y aum-um
4. Upau y anvem korum kosolo
Deva' martam ulo
Tum punn Saiba kakultty muj' kornum
Vor mak' tuj' rajantum
Rorhtam, rorhtam
Duk'm golloitam
Sodanch furhar muz' chintitam
1. Reflecting on my whole life, I move in sorrow. There is no one in the world
to console me.
2. This world truly seems a pool of sorrow. There is not one who can tell me
that he is happy.
3. From the moment God made me, I was sunk in sorrow. When will I find
happiness -- only when I am no more?
4. What can I do? I cry out to God. At least you, Lord, have mercy on me,
and take me to your kingdom.
I weep and weep, with tears streaming. I always think of my future
[LYRICS and text from Pereira-Martins-Costa's _Song of Goa_]
Soglem mujem vido chintunum
1. Soglem mujem vido chintunum
Dukan bountam y aum-um
Sonsram' maka nam re konnom
Diucha' buzavonnom
2. Sonsar soglo dista re foro
Dukachem konddo
Konn punn maka nam sangtolo
Asa munn felizo
3. Devan maka rochil' tedonnom
Pol-llom y aum dukantum
Felecidade mellot kedonnom
Cabar zatrich y aum-um
4. Upau y anvem korum kosolo
Deva' martam ulo
Tum punn Saiba kakultty muj' kornum
Vor mak' tuj' rajantum
Rorhtam, rorhtam
Duk'm golloitam
Sodanch furhar muz' chintitam
1. Reflecting on my whole life, I move in sorrow. There is no one in the world
to console me.
2. This world truly seems a pool of sorrow. There is not one who can tell me
that he is happy.
3. From the moment God made me, I was sunk in sorrow. When will I find
happiness -- only when I am no more?
4. What can I do? I cry out to God. At least you, Lord, have mercy on me,
and take me to your kingdom.
I weep and weep, with tears streaming. I always think of my future
[LYRICS and text from Pereira-Martins-Costa's _Song of Goa_]
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