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Senow Music Sheet (Senô gakufu) No. 398
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Mephistopheles’ Serenade from the Opera Faust (Kageki Fausuto, Mefisuto no sayogaku)
Senow Music Sheet (Senô gakufu) No. 398
Designer: Artist unknown, Japanese
Composer: Charles François Gounod (French, 1818 – 1893)
Lyricist: Charles François Gounod (French, 1818 – 1893)
Translator: Horiuchi Keizō (Japanese, 1897 – 1983)
Publisher: Kyōeki shōsha shoten (Japanese)
Composer: Charles François Gounod (French, 1818 – 1893)
Lyricist: Charles François Gounod (French, 1818 – 1893)
Translator: Horiuchi Keizō (Japanese, 1897 – 1983)
Publisher: Kyōeki shōsha shoten (Japanese)
Japanese
Taishô era
1925 (Taishô 14), February 5
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph; ink on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 26.7 × 19.4 cm (10 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mary and Robert Levenson
Accession Number2023.1142.1-3
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsMusical scores
DescriptionTranslation of lyrics from Japanese, by Kuniko and Kendall Brown:
Leaving Home (French and Japanese; an essay recaps the plot)
"Now as I leave my home,
Dear God entrust my sister to Providence.
Keep her from harm.
Keep her body from harm,
Oh, god, keep her far from it.
Dear me the time has come.
I take up a long sword,
and depart to the glorious war,
Bravely leaving my homeland behind.
If I die in war, our days of meeting are done
Oh, Marguerite!
Now as I leave my home,
Dear God entrust my sister to Providence.
Please have mercy,
Dear god, on Marguerite"
Leaving Home (French and Japanese; an essay recaps the plot)
"Now as I leave my home,
Dear God entrust my sister to Providence.
Keep her from harm.
Keep her body from harm,
Oh, god, keep her far from it.
Dear me the time has come.
I take up a long sword,
and depart to the glorious war,
Bravely leaving my homeland behind.
If I die in war, our days of meeting are done
Oh, Marguerite!
Now as I leave my home,
Dear God entrust my sister to Providence.
Please have mercy,
Dear god, on Marguerite"
ProvenanceBy 2019, Mary and Robert Levenson, Belleair, FL; 2023, gift of Mary and Robert Levenson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2023)