RUMI CANTATA lyrics and structure

Good news! My new work, RUMI CANTATA has completed the sketching phase. I am beginning to write the score now.


RUMI CANTATA is a religious cantata in the form and style of a BACH Cantata. It is for soloists (SATB) and a small SATB choir accompanied by a small string orchestra + oboe + flute.


It is based on 6 poems from:
Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi'de Seçme Rübailer
Türkçeleştiren: Talat Sait HALMAN


The piece is written with modern notation (Serocki - Ligeti) but with a strong modal flavour. The transitions from modal to atonal and vice versa are studied and experimented carefully.


1st movement is for choir + strings (Huseyni)
2nd movement is for tenor solo + vcl + CB recitative (Hicaz)
3rd movement is for soprano + alto soli + vln + vcl + CB + oboe aria (Karcihar)
4th movement is for basso solo + vcl + CB + flute recitative arioso (Kürdi)
5th movement is for alto + tenor soli + string orchestra + oboe aria (Suzinak)
6th movement is for SATB soli + choir + string orchestra + flute + oboe (Huseyni)


Modal chords is sometimes used as only colors without functionality. They are sometimes used with functional relations also.  I produced the text by choosing the poems in such a way that they could comply with the function and form of a BACH cantata.


It seems there is at least 2-3 months more to see the my final work. I hope you enjoy the text. Both texts may be altered a bit during the composition process. I am not happy about the English text but the composition will be done for both languages at the same time. This restricts the location of words etc. because of the prosodi.


Regards.


Ali R+ SARAL


RUMI CANTATA
1
Bir can vardır: Düşünce güç sağlar ona,
Bir başka can ormandaki bir arslana.
Dikkat et! Bir baltaya benzer düşünü;
Çok fazla düşünme: vurmasın balta sana.
2
And içtim: Çıkmadıkça kalbimden can,
Şaşmam tek yönden çıkmam düz yoldan.
Derken sağa baktım, sola baktım: Hep o var.
Hep sevgili çıktı... çekti sağdan soldan.
3
Gönlümdeki iç ve dış O'dur, bende can O.
Gövdem, damarım, ruhum, O'dur. Bende kan O.
Tek Tanrı'ya, çok Tanrı'ya tapmak bir mi?
Bak, benzeri yok varlığımın: Var olan O.
4
Peyda olurum, saklanırım, işte buyum;
Müslüman, Hiristiyan, Musevi olurum.
Kalbim yerleşsin diye her bir yüreğe,
Ben kendime hergün yeni bir yüz bulurum.
5
Ey dost, sana candan yakınız aşk duyarak;
Sen nerde yürürsen orda olduk toprak,
Aşk mezhebinin cilvesi: Görmek sende
Tüm evreni - ancak sana hep kör kalmak.
6
Dünyada ve ahrette O var, bir tek O var;
Tek taptığımız O. Sahte tüm varlıklar:
Gökler de yalan, güneş de; bağ bahçe yalan.
Her sözde, her anlamda O tek gerçek, O var.
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1
A soul exists: Thinking gives strength to it
An other soul to the lion in the forest.
Be careful! Thinking is like an axe;
Don't think too much: may axe not hurt you.
2
I swear: Unless my soul leaves my heart,
I won't change my direction, I won't leave the straight way.
Then I looked right, and the left: It is always the same thing.
It's always the beloved... pulled me from right or left.
3
My soul's in and out is It, my soul is It.
My body, my vein, my spirit is It. My blood is It.
To a single God, to many Gods, is it the same to believe?
Look, my existence has no similar: what exists is It.
4
I appear, I disappear, I am this;
Muslim, Christian, Jew, I become.
May my heart find place in every heart,
I find everyday to me a new face.
5
Lo friend, we are closer than souls, feeling love;
Wherever you walk we were there the soil.
The game of love sect is: To see in you
The whole cosmos but remain blind to you.
6
It exists in the world and eternity, only It exists.
The only thing we believe in is It. False are all the creatures:
Lie are the skies, lie is the sun; Lie are fields, wineyards.
In every word, in every meaning, It is the single reality, It is.