De tant aimer (Jean Maillard)

Music files

L E G E N D

Disclaimer

How to download

ICON	SOURCE
	Web Page
	File details
	Help

• (Posted 2023-04-03)  CPDL #73326: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-04-03).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is offered at original pitch for SATB or transposed down a fourth for ATTB. Modernized French underlay.

General Information

Title: De tant aimer
Composer: Jean Maillard
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or ATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1541 in Le Parangon des chansons, livre 9, no. 19
Description: 

Original text and translations

French text De tant aymer sans avoir ioyssance Ceste esperance & de sespoir aussy Lung y pretend laultre en deusent transy Puis a la fin le moyns a la puissance.

French text (modernized) De tant aimer sans avoir jouissance C'est espérance et désespoir aussi; L'un y prétend l'autre en deussent transi, Puis à la fin le moins a la puissance.

English translation To love so much without pleasure Is both hope and despair; Each demands that the other abate, But ultimately neither holds sway. (trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)