Content ou non (Thomas Crecquillon)

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• (Posted 2025-03-27)  CPDL #84325: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-03-27).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 82 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

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

General Information

Title: Content ou non
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: ATTTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1572 in Mellange de chansons (Le Roy & Ballard), no. 61
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Original text and translations

French text Content ou non, il faut que je l'endure Puisque fortune si tres perverse et dure Tant de langeur si me faut endurer Dont souffriray esperant plus durer.

French text (modernized) Content ou non, il faut que je l'endure., Puisque fortune, si très perverse et dure, Tant de langueur si me faut endurer Dont souffrirai espérant plus durer.

English translation Like it or not, I must lump it, So long as fortune, so disobliging and harsh, Compels me to undergo such listlessness As I shall suffer, hoping to survive beyond it. (trans. Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes)