Un jour passé, bien écoutaie (Hubert Waelrant)

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• (Posted 2024-02-09)  CPDL #79064: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2024-02-09).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 265 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. Modernized French text.

General Information

Title: Un jour passé, bien écoutaie
Composer: Hubert Waelrant
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1558
Description: 

Original text and translations

French text Ung iour passe bien escoutoye Une fille secretement en lieu secret demenant ioye Qui triumphoit ioyeusement Considerant quen mariage Debuoit avoir son advantage Au joly ieu sans insolence Dont elle dit en son langage Ie suis gay pour dimence.

French text modernized Un jour passé, bien écoutaie Une fille secrètement En lieu secret démenant joie Qui triomphait joyeusement Considérant qu'en mariage Devoit avoir son avantage Au joli jeu sans insolence. Dont elle dit en son langage, "Je suis gai pour Dimanche".

English translation The other day (most serendipitously) I overheard A chit, behind closed doors, In a clandestine pleasure-inducing activity (concluded with utmost satisfaction!). She was excogitating that in marriage She might indulge her predilection For sexual congress without attracting opprobrium. On which matter, she propounded, in her idiolect, "I'm well up for Sunday" (trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)