Vous qui aimez les dames (Orlando di Lasso)
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- Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2017-11-18). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 80 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transcribed from Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus 1570. Original pitch and note-values. French spelling modernised.
General Information
Title: Vous qui aimez les dames
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SMsATB
Genre: Secular, Chanson
Languages: French, Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1560 in Tiers livre des chansons a 4-6 parties, no. 19
2nd published: 1565 in Sesieme livre de chansons a quatre et cinc parties, no. 15
3rd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 54
Description: Words later included in the play "La comédie des chansons" (1640) attributed to Tim. de Chillac
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Original text and translations
French and Latin text
Vous qui aimez les dames,
blande loquimini,
Dites qu'elles sont belles
et adulamini,
Touchez-leur les mamelles
et osculamini,
Si trois fois elles souffrent
chantez laetamini,
Vos besognes sont faites
in nomine Domini.