Jouissance vous donnerai (Nicolas Gombert)

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• (Posted 2022-12-11)  CPDL #71874: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2022-12-11).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 250 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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General Information

Title: Jouissance vous donnerai
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
Lyricist: Clément Marot
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTBB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: Unknown

First published:
Description: Circulated in manuscript and believed unpublished.

Original text and translations

French text Joissance vous donneray mon ami et vous meneray La ou pretent votre esperance Vivant ne vous laisseray. Encor quant mort ie seray Si vous auray en souvenance.

French text (modernised) Jouissance vous donnerai mon ami, je vous mènerai Là où prétend votre espérance Vivante ne vous laisserai. Encore quand mort je serai Si vous aurai en 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; Nor again, when I am dead, If you still remember (me). (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