De long travail heureuse recompense (Isaac Lhéritier)

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• (Posted 2025-08-31)  CPDL #86595:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-08-31).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 73 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a tone.

General Information

Title: De long travail heureuse recompense
Composer: Isaac Lhéritier
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1541 in Le Parangon des chansons, livre 9, no. 25
Description: Published by Jacques Moderne, Lyon, 1541

Original text and translations

French text (Spelling modernised) De long travail heureuse recompense amour permet à celui qui le suit. De lui (je) n’ai eu (ni) recompense ni fruit mais au rebours tout ennui et tristesse dont contraint suis de blamer jour et nuit amour voyant l’ennui qui tant m’oppresse. English translation by Mick Swithinbank In return for long suffering, love grants a happy reward to those who choose to be guided by her. Love has neither rewarded me nor granted me any succour but on the contrary has brought me nothing but distress and grief so that I am compelled to complain night and day about love, considering the anguish that so oppresses me.