Pourquoi non (Pierre de la Rue)

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• (Posted 2007-10-11)  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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General Information

Title: Pourquoi non
Composer: Pierre de la Rue

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1501 in Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, Volume 1, no. 40, p. 18
    2nd published: 1929 in Das Chorwerk, no. 3.11
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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 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. Translation by Mick Swithinbank