Jeune beauté (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck)

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• (Posted 2017-08-10)  CPDL #45812:     

Editor: Frank de Ruyter (submitted 2017-08-10).   Score information: A4, 5 pages, 128 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Jeune beauté
Composer: Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Lyricist: Clément Marot

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1594 in Chansons a cinc parties, no. 11
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Original text and translations

French text Jeune Beaulté, bon Esprit, bonne grâce, Cent foys le jour je m'esbahy, comment Touts troys avez en ung corps trouvé place Si à propos, et si parfaictement. Celle, à qui Dieu faict ce bon traictement, Doibt bien aymer le jour de sa naissance: Et moy le soir, qui fut commencement De prendre à elle honneste congnoissance.

English translation Young Beauty, charming Spirit, gentle grace, A hundred times a day I’m struck by how All three have in one body found a place So fitting and so perfect as in thou. The one with whom God did these gifts endow Should well esteem the morning of her birth, And I the ev’ning, which did me allow To start to comprehend her special worth. Translation by Thomas Daughton