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S.3.15 La vengeance impossible

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View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare


Image Metadata:

Image Description:

Plate Signature: “Le Barbier inv. / D Née Sc”

Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François”

Engraver: “Née, François Denis”

Year:

Inscription: “Mais, si vous m’êtes infidele, / Qui pourra me venger de vous ?”

Keywords: couples,lovers, courtship, court dress, swords, tricornes, bagwigs,necklaces, dogs (species), exterior, countryside, upper class, day (time of day), forests (plant communities), grasses (plants), sky, clouds, Malva sylvestris,metalpoint (technique), metal points (implements), drawing board, drawing (image-making), sketches

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General Metadata:

Group Page Range: Vol. 3, 86-90

Title Page Inscription: “LA / VENGEANCE / IMPOSSIBLE.”

Published Notes:

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View Score(s): 1773

Song 1 recording: Lorsque Philis trahit mon éspérance

Song 2 recording: Une égale tendrésse

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: Ab

Song 1 Time Signature: 2

Song 1 Expression Marks: Andantino

Song 1 Tessitura of Voice: e1-a2

Song 1 Tessitura of Instrument: E-f2

Song 1 Strophic: Non-strophic

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Song 2 Description:

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

Song 2 Key Signature: g

Song 2 Time Signature: 6^8

Song 2 Expression Marks: Andantino

Song 2 Tessitura of Voice: f#1-f2

Song 2 Tessitura of Instrument: F-c3

Song 2 Strophic: Strophic

Song 2 Related Compositions:

Read:

Song 1 Transcription:
Lorsque Philis trahit mon esperance
c’est vous aimable Iris qui séchates mes pleurs,
mon triste cœur après son inconstance
trouva dons votre amour la fin de ses malheurs.

Je suis content vous m’avez vengé d’elle
je goute en vous aimant un sort cent fois plus doux
mais si vous m’êtes infidelle
qui pourra me venger de vous
qui pourra me venger de vous
qui pourra me venger me venger de vous?

Song 2 Transcription:
I
Une egale tendrésse
va combler nos desirs
amour confond sans cesse
nos cœurs et nos soupirs.
enflâme nôtre âme
dans le sein des plaisirs:
enflâme nôtre âme
dans le sein des plaisirs.
II
Non, non, le bien Suprême
N’est pas dans la grandeur;
On le doit à soi même,
Il est dans nôtre cœur.
Tu m’aimes, je t’aime,
Voilà le vrai bonheur.


Text Metadata:

Song 1 Text Description:

Song 1 Incipit: Lorsque Philis trahit mon éspérance

Song 1 Author: “Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de”

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Song 2 Text Description:

Song 2 Incipit: Une égale tendrésse

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Filed Under: Song Set Tagged With: bagwigs, clouds, countryside, couples, court dress, courtship, day (time of day), dogs (species), drawing (image-making), drawing board, exterior, forests (plant communities), grasses (plants), lovers, Malva sylvestris, metal points (implements), metalpoint (technique), necklaces, sketches, sky, swords, tricornes, upper class

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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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