Pourquoi non (Pierre de la Rue)

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• CPDL #15175:  Finale 2002

Editor: Benoît Huwart (submitted 2007-10-11).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 49 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

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Title: Pourquoi non
Composer: Pierre de La Rue

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

French text

Pourquoi non,

Ne veuil je mourir?

Pourquoi non,

Ne dois je quérir,

La fin de ma dolente vie.

Quand j'aime qui ne m'aime mie,

Et sers sans guerdon acquérir.

English translation by Mick Swithinbank
Why do I
not wish to die?
This life of misery,
if it cannot be mended,
were it not better ended?
I love her: not a fig does she care
and my reward for serving her
is naught but empty air.