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S.2.12 Le bal

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View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare


Image Metadata:

Image Description:

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

Artist: “Le Bouteux, Joseph Barthélemy”

Engraver: “Née, François Denis”

Year:

Inscription: “Songés que je dois à la danse / Ce seul instant de jouißance….”

Keywords: arches, audiences, balls (parties), bas-reliefs (sculpture), candles, chandeliers (hanging lights), children (people by age group), coffers (architecture components), columns (architectural elements), concerts (performances), court dress, courtship, dancing (activity), Doric order, double basses, festoon (motif), guéridons, interior, masks (costume), mothers, musicians, night, performances (creative events), post horns, sculpture (visual works), seating furniture, stages (performance spaces), statues, trumpets (aerophones), upper class, urban, violins, roundels (circular panels), stuccowork, candlelight, musical instruments

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General Metadata:

Group Page Range: Vol. 2, 68-72

Title Page Inscription: “LE BAL.”

Published Notes:

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View Score(s): 1773

Song 1 recording: Ecoutés moi donc, ma Lucille

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:

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: F

Song 1 Time Signature: 2

Song 1 Expression Marks: Allegretto

Song 1 Tessitura of Voice: d1-a2

Song 1 Tessitura of Instrument: c-g3

Song 1 Strophic: Non-strophic

Song 1 Related Compositions:

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Song 1 Transcription:
Ecoutés moi donc, ma Lucille,
pouvés vous voir d’un œil tranquille
les maux qui déchirent mon cœur;
Consolés l’amant le plus tendre;
pendant qu’on ne peut nous entendre,
un mot peut faire mon bonheur.
I
Songés que je dois à la danse,
ce seul instant de jouissance.
Un si doux moment vient si rarement!
Profités de cet instant pour rassurer votre amant,
un si doux moment vient si rarement,
Profités de cet instant pour rassurer votre amant.
II
La Pauvre fille emuë
craignant
d’être entendue
tristement
se taisait
et tout bas soupirait.
Mais tout d’un coup ne voyant
plus sa mere
que la foule entrainait,
frémissant de colere
elle saisit
l’instant
et lui dit en tremblant:

Ah! mon cher Lindor ta Lucille
est loin de voir d’un œil tranquille,
les maux qui déchirent ton cœur:
J’aimerai toujours l’amant le plus tendre
pendant qu’on ne peut nous entendre.
Que cet aveu suffise à ton bonheur
que cet aveu suffise à ton bonheur.


Text Metadata:

Song 1 Text Description:

Song 1 Incipit: Ecoutés moi donc, ma Lucille

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

Song 1 Text Keywords:

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Filed Under: Song Set Tagged With: arches, audiences, balls (parties), bas-reliefs (sculpture), candlelight, candles, chandeliers (hanging lights), children (people by age group), coffers (architecture components), columns (architectural elements), concerts (performances), court dress, courtship, dancing (activity), Doric order, double basses, festoon (motif), guéridons, interior, masks (costume), mothers, musical instruments, musicians, night, performances (creative events), post horns, roundels (circular panels), sculpture (visual works), seating furniture, stages (performance spaces), statues, stuccowork, trumpets (aerophones), upper class, urban, violins

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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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