Jouissance vous donnerai (Antonio Gardano)

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• (Posted 2022-03-06)  CPDL #68258: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-03-06).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 102 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Modern French underlay.

General Information

Title: Jouissance vous donnerai
Composer: Antonio Gardano
Lyricist: Clément Marot
Number of voices: 2vv   Voicing: TB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1539 in Canzoni francese a due voci libro primo (Antonio Gardano), no. 23
    2nd published: 1545 in Bicinia gallica, latina et germanica 1 (Georg Rhau), no. 24
Description: A setting of Marot's text using material from de Sermisy's popular chanson.

Original text and translations

French text Jouissance vous donneray mon amy & vous meneray La ou pretend voustre sperance Vivante ne vous laisseray. Encore quant morte seray Lesprit en aura souvenance.

French text (modernised) Jouissance vous donnerai mon ami, je vous mènerai Là où prétend votre espérance Vivante ne vous laisserai. Encore quand mort serai L'esprit en aura souvenance.

English translation I will give you joy my friend, and will take you There where your hope lies. I will not leave you while I live. And, when I am dead, My spirit will still remember. (trans Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)

English translation

(verse)
Love’s climax will I give to you
My friend and I will lead you to
The target of your deep desire.
Alive I will not you eschew,
E’en when my time on Earth is through,
Love’s spirit will remain afire.

Translation by Thomas Daughton