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... there's a song I wrote out the other day on the green bark of the beech and set to music, marking the turns of voice and pipe.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Daphnis at Heaven's Gate, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p. 47.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 49 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Singing contest in alternate form, with comments on the setting of music to a song.
The very lions of Africa gave tongue - mountain jungle echoed their grief at Daphnis' death.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Daphnis at Heaven's Gate, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p. 48.
PLACE: Northern Italy
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: the sounds of nature are interpreted as conveying human emotions in the context.
For very joy the shaggy mountains raise a clamour to the stars; the rocks burst into song, and the plantations speak. "He is a god" they say; "Menalcas, he is a god!"
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Daphnis at Heaven's Gate, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p. 49.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: The deification of Daphnis is accompanied by nature's exuberance.
... such a song - sweeter, to my ear, than the music of the South Wind gathering way, or beaches beaten by the surf, or the streams that hurry down through rocky glens.
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), Daphnis at Heaven's Gate, from: The Pastoral Poems (The Eclogues), translated by E.V. Rieu, Penguin Classics, 1949, p. 50.
PLACE: Northern Italy (see also card no.542)
TIME: During Virgil's lifetime, ca. 70 B.C.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Comment on the opponent's singing in a singing contest.
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