Vous qui aimez les dames (Orlando di Lasso)
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- Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2017-11-18). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 80 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus 1570. Original pitch and note-values. French spelling modernised.
General Information
Title: Vous qui aimez les dames
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SMsATB
Genre: Secular, Chanson
Languages: French, Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1560 in Tiers livre des chansons a 4-6 parties, no. 19
2nd published: 1565 in Sesieme livre de chansons a quatre et cinc parties (Le Roy & Ballard), Edition 1, no. 15
3rd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 54
4th published: 1576 in Le thresor de musique (sacred contrafact), Edition 1, no. 91
5th published: 1582 in Le thresor de musique (sacred contrafact), Edition 2, no. 84
6th published: 1592 in La fleur des chansons (sacred contrafact), no. 57
Description: Words later included in the play "La comédie des chansons" (1640) attributed to Tim. de Chillac
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Original text and translations
French and Latin text
Original text
Vous qui aimez les dames,
blande loquimini,
Dites qu'elles sont belles
et adulamini,
Touchez-leur les mamelles
et osculamini,
Si trois fois elles souffrent
chantez laetamini,
Vos besognes sont faites
in nomine Domini.
Sacred contrafact (from Le thresor de musique d'Orlande de Lassus)
Vous qui aimez le monde,
Et ses fait vicieux,
Vous qui la chair immonde
Suivez, suivant le cieux:
Pour voi la mort seconde
Ou en douleur profonde,
Seront changez vos jeux.
Quiconque en mal se fonde,
Il vit et meurt furieux.
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