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S.3.22 La deffense inutile

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View Image(s): Chantilly, 1773, Compare


Image Metadata:

Image Description:

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

Artist: “Lebarbier, Jean Jacques François”

Engraver: “Née, François Denis”

Year:

Inscription: “Aujourd’hui je vois ma Mere / M’ordonner d’un ton sévere / De fuir avec soin Colin.”

Keywords: hats, peasants, pastoral, day (time of day),interior, doors, doorways, cottages,lovers, couples,mothers, ewers (vessels), tables (support furniture), chairs (furniture forms), baskets (containers),onions, birds (animals), birdcages (containers), windows, paintings (visual works), bonnets (hats), dogs (species),hand spinning, milk cans, vases, Rosa (genus), tableware, hangings (coverings), slat-back chairs, wool (hair material), beam ceilings, beams (structural elements), pulleys,kitchen dresser, spindles (textile working equipment), distaffs, yarn

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General Metadata:

Group Page Range: Vol. 3, 128-132

Title Page Inscription: “LA DEFFENSE / INUTILE”

Published Notes:

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View Score(s): 1773

Song 1 recording: Quand j’étois jeunette

Song 2 recording: L’aurore à peine ouvriot le cieux

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: 2

Song 1 Expression Marks: Allegro

Song 1 Tessitura of Voice: e1-eb2

Song 1 Tessitura of Instrument: d-g2

Song 1 Strophic: Strophic

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Song 2 Description:

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

Song 2 Key Signature: Eb

Song 2 Time Signature: 3

Song 2 Expression Marks: Adagio

Song 2 Tessitura of Voice: eb1-ab2

Song 2 Tessitura of Instrument: Eb-eb1

Song 2 Strophic: Non-strophic

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Song 1 Transcription:
I
Quand j’étois jeunette
J’allois seule sous la coudrette,
Cueillir la Noisette
et jouer à cent petits jeux
aujourd’hui je vois ma mere
m’ordonner d’un ton sévére
defuir avec soin ces lieux
et je suis toujours sous ses yeux
Colin sans doute en est cause
dès qu’il me dit quelque chose
on me déffend
de m’arreter un seul instant
ah! Quel destin!
que je devrois hair Colin!
II
Helas! qu’à mon âge
On souffre d’un tel esclavage!
Pour un autre usage
Colin dit que j’ai des attraits.
Un jour il vint me surprendre;
Il me peignit d’un air tendre,
L’amour, l’effet de ses traits,
Et le sort des Amans parfaits.
Ma Mere frappa ma vuë,
Je m’échappai toute emuë,
Depuis ce jour
Je ne songe plus qu’à l’amour;
Ah! quel destin!
Falloit-il écouter Colin?
III
Je cherche sans cesse
A m’échapper avec adrèsse;
L’amour qui me prèsse
M’inspire des détours heureux.
Colin qui toujours me guette,
Sait m’approcher en cachette;
J’écoute, et je sens ses feux;
Je voudrois combler tous ses vœux
Il dit cent fois qu’il m’adore,
Je me le dis plus encore;
Mais quoi! toujours
Ces tendres instants sont trop courts
Ah! quel destin!
Et que je plains mon cher Colin.

Song 2 Transcription:
L’aurore à peine ouvroit les cieux
qu’à la faveur d’un songe officeux
j’ai cru vous voir moins inhumaine
Quels plaisirs quels ardens transports!
que je serois heureux Climéne
si je veillois comme je dors
si je veillois comme je dors.


Text Metadata:

Song 1 Text Description:

Song 1 Incipit: Quand j’étois jeunette

Song 1 Author: Ménilglaise

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Song 2 Text Description:

Song 2 Incipit: L’aurore à peine ouvriot le cieux

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Filed Under: Song Set Tagged With: baskets (containers), beam ceilings, beams (structural elements), birdcages (containers), birds (animals), bonnets (hats), chairs (furniture forms), cottages, couples, day (time of day), distaffs, dogs (species), doors, doorways, ewers (vessels), hand spinning, hangings (coverings), hats, interior, kitchen dresser, lovers, milk cans, mothers, onions, paintings (visual works), pastoral, peasants, pulleys, Rosa (genus), slat-back chairs, spindles (textile working equipment), tables (support furniture), tableware, vases, windows, wool (hair material), 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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