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S.4.21 Le danger de tomber

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View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare


Image Metadata:

Image Description:

Plate Signature: “LeBarbier inv / Masquelier S.”

Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François”

Engraver: “Masquelier, Louis Joseph, I”

Year:

Inscription: “Un jour la Jeune Bergere / Tomba, voulant se baisser.”

Keywords: bergère hats canes (walking sticks) cloaks countryside couples courtship day (time of day) exterior flocks grasses (plants) hats lovers peasants pollard trees Populus (genus) sheep (genus) shepherds sky streams trees tricornes villages

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General Metadata:

Group Page Range: Vol. 4, 122-126

Title Page Inscription: “LE DANGER / DE / TOMBER”

Published Notes:

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View Score(s): 1773

Song 1 recording: Le long des Eaux sur l’herbette

Song 2 recording: Je ne veux plus aimer

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

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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:
The arpeggiated accompaniment in this brief chanson, set at as bourrée, might depict the slippery and unstable surface upon which Colinette stands. The emphasis here is on the clear narrative: Laborde sets the poetry in four repetitive sections, with the second in the relative minor serving as contrast.

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

Song 1 Key Signature: f

Song 1 Time Signature: 2

Song 1 Expression Marks: Allegretto

Song 1 Tessitura of Voice: eb1-ab2

Song 1 Tessitura of Instrument: F-c3

Song 1 Strophic: Strophic

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Song 2 Description:

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

Song 2 Key Signature: e

Song 2 Time Signature: 3

Song 2 Expression Marks: Allegretto

Song 2 Tessitura of Voice: d1-a2

Song 2 Tessitura of Instrument: E-f#2

Song 2 Strophic: Non-strophic

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Song 1 Transcription:
I
Le long des Eaux sur l’herbette
Colin gardoit son Troupeau
Le long des Eaux Colinette
à l’ombre d’un jeune Ormeau
Près de Colin sur l’herbette
venoit tourner son fuseau
Près de Colin sur l’herbette
venoit tourner son fuseau.
II
Colin aimoit Colinette,
Colinette aimoit Colin.
Un vieux jaloux à Lunette
La suivoit soir et matin.
Malgré ses soins Colinette
Tous les jours voyoit Colin.
III
Chaque fois que Colinette
Laissoit tomber son fuseau,
Colin à sa Bergerette
Prenoit un Baiser nouveau:
A chaque instant Colinette
Laissoit tomber son fuseau.
IV
Un jour la jeune Bergere
Tomba, voulant se baisser;
On dit que le téméraire
De ce malheur sçut user:
Mais, lors que l’on est à terre
A quoi peut on s’opposer?

Song 2 Transcription:
Je ne veux plus jamais aimer que ma muzette,
j’abandonne à la fin la volage Lizette
son cœur ne fut pas fait pour être aimé du mien…

je suis tendre et sensible elle est fiere et Coquette
l’amour est dans mon cœur la froideur dans le sien…
hélas! pourquoi faut il qu’encor je la regrette
pourquoi [faut il qu’encor] je la regrette.


Text Metadata:

Song 1 Text Description:

Song 1 Incipit: Lelong des Eaux sur l’herbette

Song 1 Author: “Fontenelle, Bernard de”

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Song 2 Text Description:

Song 2 Incipit: Je ne veux plus aimer

Song 2 Author: “Laborde, Jean-Benjamin de”

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Filed Under: Song Set Tagged With: bergère hats, canes (walking sticks), cloaks, countryside, couples, courtship, day (time of day), exterior, flocks, grasses (plants), hats, lovers, peasants, pollard trees, Populus (genus), sheep (genus), shepherds, sky, streams, trees, tricornes, villages

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DOI: 10.25911/5fb2475a57401

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