De lustelijcke mey (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)

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  • (Posted 2020-10-23)  CPDL #60996:     
Editor: Richard Mix (submitted 2020-10-23).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 41 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Underlay unfinished.

General Information

Title: De lustelijcke mey
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularPartsong

Language: Dutch
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1554 in Nieuve duytsche liedekens (Jacob Baethen), no. 24
    2nd published: 1572 in Een duytsch musyck boeck (Phalèse), no. 25
    3rd published: 1964 in Das Chorwerk, no. 92.14
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Original text and translations

Dutch.png Dutch text

De lustelijcke mey es nu in sijnen tijt,
met sijne groene blaederen,
u leifflijckaen schouwen die venus dienaer sijt,
men mach u niet verfaden,
wat bij des meys virtuyt,
so menich cleyn vogelken ruyt,
sijne sanck is soet om hooren
dus willen wy vruecht orboren.