D'Anne jouant de l'espinette
French source:
Clément Marot
Jeune, en bon poinct, de la ligne des dieux,
Et que sa voix, ses doits et l’espinette
Meinent un bruyct doulx et melodieux,
J’ay du plaisir et d’oreilles et d’yeulx
Plus que les sainctz en leur gloire immortelle,
Et autant qu’eulx je deviens glorieux
Dès que je pense estre un peu aymé d’elle.
On Anne playing the spinet
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Young, comely, of divine lineage,
And when her voice, her fingers, and the spinet
Make a sweet melodious sound,
My ears and eyes know greater pleasure
Than the saints in their immortal glory:
And I become as glorious as they,
The moment I feel she loves me a little.
Translation © Richard Stokes author of A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
D'Anne jouant de l'espinette
French source:
Clément Marot
On Anne playing the spinet
English source:
Richard Stokes
Lors que je voy en ordre la brunette,
When I see my neat and dark-haired lady,
Jeune, en bon poinct, de la ligne des dieux,
Young, comely, of divine lineage,
Et que sa voix, ses doits et l’espinette
And when her voice, her fingers, and the spinet
Meinent un bruyct doulx et melodieux,
Make a sweet melodious sound,
J’ay du plaisir et d’oreilles et d’yeulx
My ears and eyes know greater pleasure
Plus que les sainctz en leur gloire immortelle,
Than the saints in their immortal glory:
Et autant qu’eulx je deviens glorieux
And I become as glorious as they,
Dès que je pense estre un peu aymé d’elle.
The moment I feel she loves me a little.
Composer
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. In the 1920s and 1930s he was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. He was one of the first composers to acknowledge the potential of recording in making…
