by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Bel aubespin verdissant
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Bel aubespin verdissant, Fleurissant Le long de ce beau rivage, Tu es vestu jusq'au bas Des longs bras D'une lambrunche sauvage. Deux camps drillantz de fourmis Se sont mis En garnison soubz ta souche ; Et dans ton tronc mi-mangé, Arrangé, Les avettes ont leur couche. Le gentil rossignolet Nouvelet, Avecque sa bien aymée, Pour ses amours aleger Vient loger Tous les ans dans ta ramée: Sur ta cyme il fait son ny Bien garny De laine et de fine soye, Où ses petitz esclorront, Qui seront De mes mains la douce proye. Or vy, gentil aubespin, Vy sans fin, Vy sans que jamais tonnerre, Ou la coignée, ou les vens, Ou les tems Te puissent ruer par terre.
Available sung texts: ← What is this?
• W. Hawley • C. Janequin • J. Leguerney • N. Millot • J. RivierJ. Leguerney sets stanzas 1, 3, 5
C. Janequin sets stanzas 1-3, 5
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View text with all available footnotesNote: in stanza 1, line 4, word 5 has the typo "bras" instead of "bas" in Janequin's score.
Modernized version used by Rivier and Leguerney:
Bel aubépin, verdissant, Fleurissant Le long de ce beau rivage, Tu es vêtu jusqu'au bas [Des longs]
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Ode", appears in Nouvelle continuation des Amours, first published 1556 [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):
- by Georges Boeuf (b. 1937), "Le printemps", subtitle: "Ode au bel aubépin", 2010 [ medium voice and string quartet ], from Les Quatre Saisons de Ronsard, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le bel aubépin", 1951 [ vocal duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano a cappella ], from Six poèmes de la renaissance, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by William Hawley (b. 1950), "Bel aubepin", first performed 1997 [ SATB chorus and piano ], from Chansons de Ronsard, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Clement Janequin (c1495 - c1560), "Bel aubepin verdissant", stanzas 1-3,5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Bel aubépin", 1943, published 1944, stanzas 1,3,5 [ tenor or soprano and piano ; modernized spelling ], from Poèmes de la Pléiade, Vol. I, no. 4, Paris, Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Henri Martelli (1895 - 1980), "L'aubépin", op. 20 no. 3, published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Sur des vers de la Pléïade, no. 3, Éd. Deiss & Crépin (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "L'aubespin" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants d'autrefois: recueil des premières mélodies de V. Massé, no. 6, Éditions Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nicolas Millot (d. c1590), "Ode" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean Rivier (1896 - 1987), "Bel aubépin", 1944, published 1957 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Ronsard et un de Clément Marot, no. 1, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Guido Spinetti (flourished 1897), "À un Aubespin", published 1897 [ medium voice and piano ], from Treize poésies de Ronsard, mises en musique par Guido Spinetti, et ornées par Lucien Métivet de vignettes modernes dans le goût ancien, préface de Francisque Sarcey, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Flammarion [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julien Tiersot (1857 - 1936), "A un Aubépin", published 1924 [ vocal duet for soprano and tenor with piano ], from Chansons de Ronsard, no. 5, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel ; a realization of the melody by Clément Janequin [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , David Wyatt
This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 30
Word count: 118