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Aucun ont trouv​é​/​Lonc tans me sui tenu​/​Annuntiantes

from A 14th​-​Century Salmagundi by Blue Heron

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TRIPLUM
Aucun ont trouvé chant par usage,
Mes a moi en doune ochoison
Amours, qui resbaudist mon courage,
Si que m’estuet faire chançon,
Car amer me fait dame bele et sage et de bon renon.
Et je, qui li ai fait houmage
Pour li servir tout mon aage
De loial cuer sans penser trahison,
Chanterai, car de li tieng un si douz heritage,
Que joie n’ai se de ce non:
C’est la pensée, que mon douz mal m’asouage,
Et fait esperer garison,
Ne pour quant suer moi puet clamer hausage
Amours et moi tout mon vivant tenir en sa prison.
Ne ja pour ce ne penserai vers li mesprison;
Tant set soutilment assallir,
K’encontre li defendre ne s’en puet on.
Force de cors ne plenté de lignage
Ne vaut un bouton,
Et si li plaist de raençon
Rendre a son gré, sui pris et l’en fais gage
Mon cuer, que je met du tout en abandon.
Si proi merci, car autre avantage
N’ai je ne pour moi nule autre raison.

MOTETUS
Lonc tans me sui tenu de chanter,
Mes or ai raison de joie mener,
Car boune amour me fait désirer
La miex ensegnie k’on puist en tout le mont trouver;
A li ne doit on nule autre comparer,
Et quant j’aim dame si proisie
Que grant deduit ai du penser,
Je puis bien prouver que mout a savoureuse vie,
Quoi que nus die, en bien amer.

TENOR
Annun[tiantes]


Translation:

Some have invented songs out of habit,
but I am given incentive by
Love, who so fills my heart with joy
that I must make a song,
for he makes me love a lady fair and wise and of good name.
And I, who have sworn
to serve her all my life
with a loyal heart, without thought of betrayal,
will sing, for from her I receive so sweet a gift
that I have no joy save for one:
this is the thought that soothes my sweet pain
and gives hope for a cure.
Nevertheless, Love may claim supremacy over me
and hold me in his prison all my life long,
nor indeed shall I ever think ill of him for this.
He knows how to attack so subtly
that no one can defend himself against him:
neither bodily strength nor noble lineage
is worth a button,
and if it pleases him to grant ransom
on his terms, I am taken and pledge
my heart, which I wholly abandon.
Thus I pray for mercy, for I have no other resource,
nor any other reason in my favor.

For a long time I refrained from singing,
but now I have reason to be joyous,
for true love makes me desire
the best bred lady whom one can find in the whole world:
none other can be compared with her.
And since I love so highly-prized a lady
that I get great pleasure from the thought.
I can indeed prove that he who loves well
leads a most delicious life, whatever anyone may say.

Translations by Scott Metcalfe, Thomas Forrest Kelly, and Lawrence Rosenwald.

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from A 14th​-​Century Salmagundi, released September 4, 2020

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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