Nous voyons que les hommes (Jacques Arcadelt)

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• (Posted 2009-05-17)  CPDL #19501: 

Editor: Alessandro Simonetto (submitted 2009-05-17).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 33 kB   Copyright: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Edition notes: Look for the PDF file under the section "Renaissance > [SECULAR MUSIC]"

General Information

Title: Nous voyons que les hommes
Composer: Jacques Arcadelt

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1554 in Tiers livre de chansons (Le Roy & Ballard, Paris), Edition 1, no. 15
Description: This work was the basis for the Ave Maria by Dietsch commonly attributed to Arcadelt.

Original text and translations

French text Nous voyons que les hommes font tous vertu d’aimer et, sottes que nous sommes, voulons l’amour blâmer. Ce qui leur est louable nous tourne à déshonneur, faute inexcusable, O dure loi d’honneur ! Nature, plus qu’eux sage, nous en a un corps mis plus propre à cet usage et nous est moins permis.

English translation Men, plainly enough, all think it a feather in their cap if they make lov It is foolish of us women to speak ill of love: what is seen as praiseworthy for them is dishonourable for us and an inexcusable fault; morality is harsh. Nature has more sense than they do: it has given us a body better designed than men’s for amorous practices, yet to us they are more forbidden. Translation by Mick Swithinbank