Un jour d'hiver (Ebran)

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• (Posted 2023-12-11)  CPDL #78061: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-12-11).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 236 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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

General Information

Title: Un jour d'hiver
Composer: Ebran
Lyricist: Clément Marot
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or ATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1545 in Livre 17: 19 chansons a 4 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 15
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Original text and translations

French text Ung jour diver robin tout esperdu Vint a Catin presenter sa requeste Pour degeler son chose morfondu Et ne pouvant quasy dresser la teste Incontinant Catin feut toute preste Robin aussy prent couraige sa croche on ce remue on ce ioue on ce hoche Puis quant ce vint au natural devoir A dit Catin le grand degel sa proche Cest mon dit il car il sen va plouvoir.

French text  modernised Un jour d'hiver Robin tout éperdu Vint a Catin, présenter sa requête Pour dégeler son chose morfondu. Et ne pouvant quasi dresser la tête, Incontinent Catin fut toute prête. Robin aussi prend courage; sa croche on se remue on se joue on se hoche; Puis quand ce vint au naturel devoir A dit Catin: "Le grand dégel s'approche "C'est mon", dit-il, "car il s'en va pleuvoir".

English translation So one winter's day Robin, well worked-up, Comes to Catin to importune her To unfreeze his listless whatsit. And, although finding it hard to revive the dead (as it were), Randy Catin goes at it well quick. And Robin takes courage too; his bent thing Is fiddled with, shaken, played with; Then, at the natural consequence, Catlin says: "The great thaw is nigh"; "'For me, it is", he says, "'cause a hard rain's gonna fall". (trans Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)