by
Clément Marot (1496 - 1544)
Une pastourelle gentille
Language: Middle French
Une pastourelle gentille,
Et ung Bergier en ung Verger
L'autrhyer jouant à la Bille
S'entredisoient pour abreger,
Roger
Bergier,
Legere
Bergiere,
C'est trop à la Bille joué.
Chantons Noé, Noé, Noé.
Te souvient il plus du Prophete
Qui nous dist cas de si hault faict,
Que d'une Pucelle parfaicte
Naistroit ung Enfant tout parfaict?
L'effect
Est faict;
La belle
Pucelle
A eu un Filz au Ciel voué,
Chantons Noé, Noé, Noé.
J. Binet sets stanza 2
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Confirmed with Les œuvres de Clément Marot, Lyon: G. Roville, 1547, pages 384-385.
Modernized form of text used by Tiersot, Warlock:
Une pastourelle gentille,
Et un berger en un verger,
[L'autr'hier]1 en jouant à la bille
S'entredisaient, pour abréger :
Roger
Berger
Légère
Bergère
C'est trop à la bille joué ;
Chantons [Noél ! Noél! Noél ! Noél !]2
Te souvient-il plus du prophète
Qui nous dit cas de si haut fait
Que d'une pucelle parfaite
Naîtrait un enfant tout parfait ?
L'effet
Est fait,
La belle
Pucelle
[A un fils du]3 ciel avoué :
Chantons [Noél ! Noél ! Noél ! Noél !]2
1 Tiersot: "L'autre hier"
2 Tiersot: "Noë, Noë, Noë."
3 Tiersot: "Un fils a du"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jean Binet (1893 - 1960), "Pour le jour de Noël", 1928, stanza 2 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies, no. 6, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julien Tiersot (1857 - 1936), "Deux chansons de Clément Marot sur le même air (XVIe Siècle), 2o. Chanson XXV. Du jour de Noël" [ voice, unaccompanied ], from Chants de la vieille France: 20 mélodies et chansons du XIIIè au XVIIIè siècles, no. 10b, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930), "Chanson du Jour de Noël", 1925, published 1926 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (David K. Smythe) , "Song of Christmas Day", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Song of Christmas Day
Language: English after the Middle French
A nice shepherd girl,
And a shepherd in an orchard
One day playing a game of marbles
Said to each other to while away the time,
Roger
Shepherd,
Fickle
Shepherdess,
That's enough playing of marbles
Let us sing Noel, Noel, Noel.
Do they recall more of the prophet 1
Who prophesied such an important event,
That from a perfect virgin
Would be born an entirely perfect child?
The event
Is done;
The beautiful
Virgin
Has had an acknowledged son of heaven.
Let us sing Noel, Noel, Noel.
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