Toutes les nuitz (Orlando di Lasso)

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General Information

Title: Toutes les nuitz
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SSATB or SATTB

Genre: SecularChanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1563 in Lasso's Terzo libro di madrigali a 5 voci, no. 18
    2nd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 59
    3rd published: 1576 in Les meslanges … contenantz plusieurs chansons
    4th published: 1576 in Le thresor de musique (sacred contrafact), Edition 1, no. 84
    5th published: 1582 in Le thresor de musique (sacred contrafact), Edition 2, no. 118
    6th published: 1583 in Vingttroisieme livre de chansons (Le Roy & Ballard), no. 10
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Original text and translations

French.png French text

Original text
Toutes les nuitz que sans vous je me couche,
Pensant à vous ne fay que sommeiller,
Et en revant jusques au resveiller
Incessemment vous quiers parmi la couche,
Et bien souvent au lieu de vostre bouche
En soupirant je baise l'oreiller.

Sacred contrafact (from Le thresor de musique d'Orlande de Lassus)
Toutes les nuits, que le Chrestien se couche,
I doit à Dieu, avant que sommeiller,
Crier merci, et puis au resveiller
Chanter son los et de coeur et de bouche,
Il fond en pleurs quand son peché le touche
Et souspirant mouille son oreiller
Toutes les nuits.

English.png English translation

Each night that I an empty bed must greet
My thoughts of you with troubled sleep do vie,
And into dreams I fall ‘til dawn draws nigh
Forever seeking you beneath the sheet,
Too oft instead of where our lips should meet
I kiss the feath’ry pillow and I sigh.

Translation by Thomas Daughton