Un jour passé, bien écoutaie (Jacobus Clemens non Papa)

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• (Posted 2023-03-13)  CPDL #73052: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2023-03-13).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 201 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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

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Title: Un jour passé, bien écoutaie
Composer: Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or ATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1536 in Second livre contenant XXV chansons nouvelles a quatre parties (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 21
    2nd published: 1538 in Livre 2: 27 chansons a 4 (Pierre Attaingnant), Edition 1, no. 27
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Original text and translations

French text Ung jour passe bien escoutoye Une fillette secretement en lieu secret devienant ioye Qui triumphoit ioyeusement Considerant qu'en mariage Deuoit avoir son advantage Au joli jeu sans insolence Dont elle dit en son langage Ie suys gay pour dimence.

French text modernized Un jour passé, bien écoutaie Une fillette secrètement En lieu secret devienant joie Qui triomphait joyeusement Considérant qu'en mariage Devoit avoir son avantage Au joli jeu sans insolence. Dont elle dit en son langage, "Je suis gai pour Dimanche".

English translation The other day I overheard (most serendipitiously) A chit, behind closed doors, In a clandestine pleasure-inducing activity (concluded with utmost satifaction!). She was excogitating that in marriage She might indulge her predilection For sexual congress without attracting opprobrium. On which matter, she propounded, in her idiolect, "I'm well up for Sunday" (trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)