Il fait bon aimer l'oiselet (Antoine de Févin)
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- Editor: Vincent Carpentier (submitted 2003-10-06). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 232 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Il fait bon aimer l'oiselet
Composer: Antoine de Févin
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATB
Genre: Secular, Chanson
Language: French
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: Alfred Delvau's Dictionnaire érotique moderne (1864) indicates that rossignol ("nightingale") was sometimes used in Renaissance poetry as a metaphor for the male sexual organ. That is clearly the intent in this chanson.
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Original text and translations
French text Il fait bon aimer l’oiselet |
English translation We all should love the little bird
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