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by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465)

Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin
 (Sung text for setting by C. Debussy)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG FIN
Quant j'ai ouy la tabourin
Sonner, pour s'en aler au may,
En mon lit n'en ay fait effray
Ne levé mon chief du coissin ;

En disant : il est trop matin,
Ung peu je me rendormiray :
Quant j'ay ouy le tabourin
Sonner, pour s'en aler au may.

Jeunes gens partent leur butin ;
De Nonchaloir m'accointeray :
A lui je m'abutineray,
Trouvé l'ay plus prouchain voisin :
Quant j'ay ouy le tabourin.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Quant j'ai ouy le tabourin", L. 99/(92) no. 2 (1898-1908) [ four-part mixed chorus ], from Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans, no. 2

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Rondel XXXVIII"

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "When I heard the tambourine", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Auditorium du Louvre , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 68

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