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S.4.04 L’ heureux maladroit

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View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare


Image Metadata:

Image Description:

Plate Signature: “LeBarbier inv / Masquelier Sc”

Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François”

Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I”

Year:

Inscription: “Pierrot s’agite et soupire, / Puis il reste planté là.”

Keywords: carts chairs (furniture forms) clouds cottages courtship day (time of day) doors doorways exterior grapevine (genus) grasses (plants) oculi (openings) pastoral peasants pergolas sky spinning (textile process) spinning wheels stairs thatched roofs trees water jar yarn

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General Metadata:

Group Page Range: Vol. 4, 20-24

Title Page Inscription: “L’ HEUREUX / MALADROIT”

Published Notes:

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View Score(s): 1773

Song 1 recording: Pierot dit à Madeleine

Song 2 recording: Plus ne suis ce que j’ai été

Credit: Paul McMahon, tenor
Amy Moore, soprano
Erin Helyard, harpsichord (French double by Carey Beebe after Blanchet, 1991)
Temperament: Jean-Henri Lambert, 1774, A:392

Song 1 diction recording:

Song 2 diction recording:

Credit: Eighteenth-century diction prepared and declaimed by Linda Barcan with the assistance of Erin Helyard and Veronique Duche


Music Metadata:

Song 1 Description:

Song 1 Composer: [Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de]

Song 1 Key Signature: g

Song 1 Time Signature: 6^8

Song 1 Expression Marks: [none]

Song 1 Tessitura of Voice: d1-d2

Song 1 Tessitura of Instrument: F-bb2

Song 1 Strophic: Strophic

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Song 2 Description:

Song 2 Composer: [Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de]

Song 2 Key Signature: g

Song 2 Time Signature: 3^8

Song 2 Expression Marks: Andante

Song 2 Tessitura of Voice: d1-g2

Song 2 Tessitura of Instrument: C-eb2

Song 2 Strophic: Non-strophic

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Song 1 Transcription:
I
Pierot dit à Madeleine
le cœur gros de ses soucis,
tu ris à perte d’haleine
au récit de mes ennuis
tu me causes tant de peine
que je ne sçais ou j’en suis.
II
Madeleine sans môt dire
Doucement le regarda:
Piérot s’agite et soupire
Puis il reste planté là;
La belle se prit à rire
Bientôt elle soupira.
III
Son bouquet tombe par terre
Pierot court le ramasser:
Déja sa main témeraire
Bruloit de le replacer,
Mais la crainte de déplaire
L’Empeche encor d’avancer.
IV
Pourtant il reprend courage
Puis il demande un baiser;
Madeleine à ce langage
Sourit sans le refuser.
Joyeux de cet avantage
Il est prêt à tout oser.
V
Madeleine sent l’atteinte
D’un trait que Lance L’amour.
Un cri qu’excite la crainte
Aux plaisirs donne le jour,
L’ame insensible à sa plainte
Pierrot en rit à sontour.

Song 2 Transcription:
Plus ne suis ce que j’ai été
et plus ne saurois jamais l’être
mon beau Printems et mon été
ont fait le saut par la fenêtre
Amour tu as été mon maitre
je t’ai servi sur tous les Dieux
ah! si je pouvois deux fois naitre
combien je te servirois mieux.


Text Metadata:

Song 1 Text Description:

Song 1 Incipit: Pierot dit à Madeleine

Song 1 Author: Ménilglaise

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Song 2 Text Description:

Song 2 Incipit: Plus ne suis ce que j’ai été

Song 2 Author: “Marot, Clément”

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Filed Under: Song Set Tagged With: carts, chairs (furniture forms), clouds, cottages, courtship, day (time of day), doors, doorways, exterior, grapevine (genus), grasses (plants), oculi (openings), pastoral, peasants, pergolas, sky, spinning (textile process), spinning wheels, stairs, thatched roofs, trees, water jar, yarn

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DOI: 10.25911/5fb2475a57401

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This research was supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (Performing Transdisciplinarity DP170102666).

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