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

Levez ces cuevrechiefs plus hault
Language: French (Français) 
Levez ces cuevrechiefs plus hault, 
Qui trop cuevrent ces beaulx visaiges ;
De riens ne servent telz umbraiges,
Quant-il ne fait hale ne chault.

En fait a beaulté, que tant vault, 
De la musser tort et oultraiges :
Levez ces cuevrechiefs plus hault, 
Qui trop cueuvrent ces beaulx visaiges.

Je sçay bien qu'a Dangier n'en chault,
Et pense qu'il ait donné gaiges
Pour entretenir telz usages : 
Mais l'ordonnance rompre fault,
Levez ces cuevrechiefs plus hault. 

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Les poésies du Duc Charles d'Orléans, Paris, J. Belin-Leprieur et Colomb de Batines, 1842, pages 52-53.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Chanson XLV" [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 Charles Colas , "Levez ces couvrechefs plus haut", published 1927 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons et rondeaux choisis de Charles d'Orléans 1er cahier, no. 5, Paris, Édition B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean Françaix (1912 - 1997), "Levez ces couvre-chefs", 1938, published 1961 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Épigrammes, no. 2, Éd. Musicales Transatlantiques [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Levez ces couvre-chefs plus haut", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 2ème volume, no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-05
Line count: 13
Word count: 73

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