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Tres doulz amis, tout ce que proumis t'ay; Ma dame, ce que vous m'avez proumis; Cent mille fois, ma douce dame chererondeau by Johannes Vaillant SourcesChantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 17v (3/3).Editions1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 76.2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I, p. 229. 3. French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564, First Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1981. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XVIII, p. 31. Literature1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.2. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59. 3. LECLERCQ, F. 'Questions à propos d'un fragment récemment découvert d'une chanson du XIV siècle: une autre version de "Par maintes fois"' Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, p. 201. RecordingsThe Late 14th Century Avant Garde, Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow (1973): EMI/HMV ASD 3621 (GB).TextCANTUSTres doulz amis, tout ce que proumis t'ay est tout certain, ne t'en iray faillant. mais sans fausser entierement tendray. tres doulz amis, tout ce que proumis t'ay. C'est que toudis loyalment t'ameray pour ce que t'es en tout noumT vaillant. Tres doulz amis, [tout ce que proumis t'ay est tout certain, ne t'en iray faillant]. CONTRATENOR (A) Ma dame, ce que vous m'avez proumis a vous amer et desirer m'a mort. c'est que de vous seray noumT amis ma dame, [ce que vous m'avez proumis]. Si vous supli qu'en oubli ne soye mis. car pour vray trop avanceroyt ma mort. Ma dame, [ce que vous m'avez proumis a vous amer et desirer m'a mort]. TENOR Cent mille fois, ma douce dame chere. de vostre humble response vous mercy. coume celle que j'ay plus qu'autre chiere. cent mille fois, ma douce dame chere. VueilliTs dont fayre a mon cuer bone chiere. quar chascun jour se met en vo mercy. Cent mille [fois, ma douce dame chere. de vostre humble response vous mercy]. TranslationCANTUSVery sweet love, everything that I have promised you. you can be sure of; I will not fail you. but, without treachery, I will give you entirely. very sweet love, everything that I have promised you. Always will I love you loyally. because you are declared worthy in everything. Very sweet love, [everything that I have promised you. you can be sure of; I will not fail you]. CONTRATENOR My lady, what you have promised me (loving and desiring you have killed me) is that I shall be declared by you your beloved. My lady, [what you have promised me]. Indeed I beg of you that I be not accused. for in truth it would greatly speed my death. My lady, [what you have promised me. (loving and desiring you have killed me)]. TENOR A hundred thousand times, my sweet, dear lady. I thank you for your humble response. as one whom I hold dear more than any other. a hundred thousand times, my sweet, dear lady. Thus please look favourably on my heart. for each day it places itself in your mercy. A hundred thousand [times, my sweet, dear lady. I thank you for your humble response]. Text revision and translation © Robyn Smith |
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