Nous voyons que les hommes (Jacques Arcadelt)

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• CPDL #19501: 

Editor: Alessandro Simonetto (submitted 2009-05-17).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 33 kB   Copyright: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Edition notes: Look for the PDF file under the section "Renaissance > [SECULAR MUSIC]"

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Title: Nous voyons que les hommes
Composer: Jacques Arcadelt

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAT

Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1554 in Tiers livre by Le Roy & Ballard

Description: This work was the basis for the Ave Maria by Dietsch commonly attributed to Arcadelt.

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Original text and translations

French text Nous voyons que les hommes font tous vertu d’aimer et, sottes que nous sommes, voulons l’amour blâmer. Ce qui leur est louable nous tourne à déshonneur, faute inexcusable, O dure loi d’honneur ! Nature, plus qu’eux sage, nous en a un corps mis plus propre à cet usage et nous est moins permis.

English translation Men, plainly enough, all think it a feather in their cap if they make lov It is foolish of us women to speak ill of love: what is seen as praiseworthy for them is dishonourable for us and an inexcusable fault; morality is harsh. Nature has more sense than they do: it has given us a body better designed than men’s for amorous practices, yet to us they are more forbidden. Translation by Mick Swithinbank