Composer |
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre |
|---|---|
Key |
g minor |
Meter |
3/4 |
Length |
30 measures |
French text |
English translation |
|---|---|
Flore |
Flore |
On voit dans ces plaines fleuries |
One sees in these blooming plains |
Le Dieu des jours et des saisons, |
The God of days and seasons, |
Mêler l’or de ses rayons |
Blending the gold of his rays |
À l’émail de nos prairies. |
With the luster of our fields. |
Partout mille Oiseaux divers |
Everywhere a thousand different birds |
Célèbrent le retour de ce flambeau du monde, |
Celebrate the return of this beacon of the world, |
Et par les plus tendres concerts |
And with most tender concerts |
Accordent leurs Chansons au murmure de l’Onde |
Harmonize their Songs to the whisper of the Wave |
Que le Zéphire emporte dans les Airs. |
Which the Zephyr carries in the Wind. |
Veronika Anissimova |
“Jacquet de La Guerre’s original score was most likely written in five parts, after the tradition established by Lully. As only Ballard’s partition reduite survives, however, only the upper two instrumental parts and the basse continue are extant.” IMSLP
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