Composer |
Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre |
|---|---|
Key |
D major |
Meter |
3/4 |
Length |
25 measures |
French text |
English translation |
|---|---|
Deux Athéniennes |
Two Athenian Women |
Rendons-nous, cédons à la tendresse, |
Let us return, let us yield to tenderness, |
Du Dieu des amours doit-on fuir les faveurs : |
We must elude the favours of the God of love : |
Les transports d’une heureuse faiblesse |
The transports of a happy weakness |
Passent les douceurs d’une vaine sagesse, |
Outshine the comforts of vain wisdom, |
Les Ardeurs, |
The Passions, |
Les Langueurs, |
The Languors, |
Sont des plaisirs faits pour les jeunes cœurs. |
Are pleasures made for young hearts. |
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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