Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2

[Srecko Sostar]

 

[Arauna]

I am looking for lyrics for this waltz. I would like to sing. If you see it , let me know.

[Arauna]

This waltz has got an undertone of dissonance - sounds macabre.... as though one expects a beautiful dream to end.  They use it a lot in classical movies of tragedies.... such as War and Peace.

[JW Insider]

3 hours ago, Arauna said:

I am looking for lyrics for this waltz.

It had words? In what language? Who wrote them? Shostakovich?

I saw that someone had recently added their own words, when I googled lyrics for it. (Sometime after Stanley Kubrick used it, I assumed from a very quick scan.) But I never saw words in the original context of the work.

[Arauna]

9 hours ago, JW Insider said:

had words?

No it never had words.... but I would like it in German, English, Italian or Russian or French.

[Srecko Sostar]

2 hours ago, Arauna said:

No it never had words....

Our imagination is capable to add words, unspoken sometimes, and to bring us in emotions stronger than words.    

[Arauna]

But I am a singer..... I like words.... can you write some? 

 

[JW Insider]

42 minutes ago, Arauna said:

can you write some?

This guy over here did at https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=197629

To me, they sound a bit corny in English, but that's always fixable by translating to another language.

 

[Srecko Sostar]

2 hours ago, Arauna said:

But I am a singer..... I like words.... can you write some? 

 

I can try ))) .... but not now. That is serious stuff.

[Arauna]

12 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:

That is serious stuff.

I know, I wrote poetry when I was younger and I wrote a few classical music pieces (art songs).  Hard work. Now I just use the art of other people.  Writing songs (with good words) is not as easy as it seems.  Structure to everything.

[Arauna]

15 hours ago, JW Insider said:

that's always fixable by translating to another language.

 

I have often sang songs where I change a word here or there.  This one does need so e work.... I like more poetic writing..... I was surprised at the subject .though.... but always good to have a person  love dancing with his wife for a change.