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Quatre chants

Song Cycle by Jacques François Antoine Ibert (1890 - 1962)

1. Romance  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Se peut-il qu'autrefois vous fûtes
Le tendre objet de mes amours?
Bah! ce que nous vient par les flûtes
Se dissipe au son des tambours.

Le pois d'une souffrance indue
Doit s'alléger tôt, bien souvent,
S'il est vrai qu'à brebis tondue
Dieu mesure, ici bas, le vent.

Il vaut mieux tâcher d'en sourire
Et de narguer notre destin,
D'autant plus qu'après tout le pire
N'est pas toujours le plus certain.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean-Frédéric-Emile Aubry (1882 - 1950), as Georges Jean-Aubry

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Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

2. Mélancolie

Language: French (Français) 
Tu te penches et tu souris
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Philippe Chabaneix (1898 - 1982), "Mélancolie", appears in Le Bouquet d'Ophélie, in 4. Couleur du temps perdu, no. 13, Paris, Éd. Le Divan, first published 1928, copyright ©

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3. Familière
 (Sung text)

Language: French (Français) 
Tu aimais les raisins de Corinthe, les mangues
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Philippe Chabaneix (1898 - 1982), "Exotique", appears in Le Bouquet d'Ophélie, in 4. Couleur du temps perdu, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Le Divan, first published 1928, copyright ©

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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4. Fête nationale

Language: French (Français) 
Démon au sourire angélique
 . . . . . . . . . .

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added as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Philippe Chabaneix (1898 - 1982), appears in Le Bouquet d'Ophélie, in 4. Couleur du temps perdu, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Le Divan, first published 1928, copyright ©

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Total word count: 131
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