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Trois Rondels de Villon

Song Cycle by André Jolivet (1905 - 1974)

Rondel

Language: French (Français) 
Au retour de dure prison
Où j'ai laissé presque la vie,
Se Fortune a sur moi envie
Jugez s'elle fait méprison !

Il me semble que, par raison,
Elle dût bien être assouvie
Au retour.

Se si pleine est de déraison
Que veuille que du tout dévie
Plaise à Dieu que l'âme ravie
En soit lassus, en sa maison,
Au retour !

Text Authorship:

  • by François Villon (1431 - 1463), "Chanson", appears in Le Testament [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by André Jolivet (1905 - 1974), 1929, published 1991 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Gérard Billaudot
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Rondel
 (Sung text for setting by A. Jolivet)
 Matches original text

Language: French (Français) 
Tu te brusles à la chandelle !
Helas ! mon cueur, ne vois tu pas
Que danger est tousjours au pas,
Qui fait à tous guerre mortelle ?
Soyes seur que tu l’auras belle
Se tu n’y vas bien par compas ;
Tu te brusles à la chandelle.

Sont-ce chastaignes qu’on y pelle,
A ton advis, pour ton repas ?
Nennil. Retrais toy tout le pas,
Ains qu’on te frape au cul la pelle.
Tu te brusles à la chandelle.

Text Authorship:

  • by François Villon (1431 - 1463), "Rondel" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by André Jolivet (1905 - 1974), 1929, published 1991 [ voice and orchestra or piano ], Éd. Gérard Billaudot
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 135
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