O wrede Fortune ghy (Tielman Susato)

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• (Posted 2011-01-24)  CPDL #23049:        (Finale 2008)

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2011-01-24).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 94 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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• (Posted 2006-01-30)  CPDL #10881:   

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2006-01-30).   Score information: A4 (landscape), 7 pages, 626 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This edition is a diplomatic edition of two different settings based on the same Dutch folksong: Tielman Susatos, O wrede Fortune ghy and Jacobus Clemens non Papas, Souterliedeken psalm xxxiiij: Verordelt o Heer. Editorial changes are kept to a bare minimum; text spellings are not modernised or conflated. Text underlay as near to the original print as possible.

General Information

Title: O wrede Fortune ghy
Composer: Tielman Susato

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: Dutch
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1551 in Het tvueetste musick boexken mit vier partyen (Tielman Susato), no. 15
Description: four-part chanson based on a Dutch folksong

Original text and translations

Dutch text O wrede Fortune ghy doet my trueren nu, daer ick eens die liefste plach te wesen die is van my geworden schu. Hou soud ick dys genesen Ick meynde dat icks noyt en verdiende daer is een ander int herte geresen dit bin ick daegeliex aensinde hou soud ick dies genesen.

English translation O cruel fortune, you make me weep now: she to whom I was once dearest has come to avoid me. Oh, I thought I would never deserve this. There is another who has risen in her heart: this I have to witness daily. Oh, how will I overcome this?