Si le vouloir adoucit la douleur (Claudin de Sermisy)

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• (Posted 2025-09-13)  CPDL #86789: 

Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2025-09-13).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 58 kB   Copyright: CC BY SA

Edition notes: Please click on the link for preview/playback/PDF download. This edition is offered at original pitch for SATB or transposed down a fourth for ATTB. French text modernized.

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Title: Si le vouloir adoucit la douleur
Composer: Claudin de Sermisy
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Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or ATTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1528 in Chansons nouvelles en musique à quatre parties (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 9
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Original text and translations

French text Si le vouloir adoulcit la douleur Et lavoir veu de penser se contente, En pallissant ie embellis ma couleur En mabsentant assez ie me presente.

French text (modernized) Si le vouloir adoucit la douleur Et l'avoir vu de penser se contente, En pâlissant je embellis ma couleur; En m'absentant assez je me présente.

English translation If desire ameliorates pain and, having seen it, is satisfied with contemplation, then by taking a pallor I make my colour more attractive; and by absenting myself I introduce myself sufficiently. (trans Timmi O'Danaos & Donna Ferrentes}}