Toutes les nuitz (Orlando di Lasso)

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•  Posted on 2026-02-27(Posted 2026-02-27)  CPDL #88517: 

• Original key (high chiavette):        

• Transposed down a fourth:        

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2026-02-27).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 74 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, 1570. Original note values. French spelling modernised.

• (Posted 2022-03-05)  CPDL #68252:        (LilyPond)

Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2022-03-05).   Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 66 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC

Edition notes:

• (Posted 2015-05-02)  CPDL #35282:       

Editor: Robert Urmann (submitted 2015-05-02).   Score information: Executive, 3 pages, 177 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: transposed down a fourth

• (Posted 2013-04-26)  CPDL #28893:         

Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2013-04-26).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Mensural notation, original keysignature and note values, musica ficta clearly marked.

• (Posted 2013-04-26)  CPDL #28894:       

Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2013-04-26).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a tone.

• (Posted 2013-04-26)  CPDL #28895:       

Editor: Gerd Eichler (submitted 2013-04-26).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth (Voicing SATTB)

General Information

Title: Toutes les nuitz
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicings: SSATB or SATTB

Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1563 in Lasso's Terzo libro di madrigali a 5 voci, no. 18
    2nd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 59
    3rd published: 1576 in Les meslanges … contenantz plusieurs chansons
    4th published: 1576 in Le thresor de musique (sacred contrafact), Edition 1, no. 84
    5th published: 1582 in Le thresor de musique (sacred contrafact), Edition 2, no. 118
    6th published: 1583 in Vingttroisieme livre de chansons (Le Roy & Ballard), no. 10
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Original text and translations

French text Original text Toutes les nuitz que sans vous je me couche, Pensant à vous ne fay que sommeiller, Et en revant jusques au resveiller Incessemment vous quiers parmi la couche, Et bien souvent au lieu de vostre bouche En soupirant je baise l'oreiller. Sacred contrafact (from Le thresor de musique d'Orlande de Lassus) Toutes les nuits, que le Chrestien se couche, I doit à Dieu, avant que sommeiller, Crier merci, et puis au resveiller Chanter son los et de coeur et de bouche, Il fond en pleurs quand son peché le touche Et souspirant mouille son oreiller Toutes les nuits.

English translation Each night that I an empty bed must greet My thoughts of you with troubled sleep do vie, And into dreams I fall ‘til dawn draws nigh Forever seeking you beneath the sheet, Too oft instead of where our lips should meet I kiss the feath’ry pillow and I sigh. Translation by Thomas Daughton