Si jamais mon ame blessée
from Divine Amarillis: Airs De Court 1570-1640 by Mignarda
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by Pierre Guédron (1563-1621)
Si jamais mon ame blessée is among the better-known airs de cour attributed to Pierre Guédron. It was first published as a solo air with lute accompaniment by Jean Baptiste Besard in his Thesaurus Harmonicus (Cologne, 1603). For our recording, we have chosen a later setting from the series of prints published by Ballard (1615) which, with its more refined rhythmic subtleties, we believe more closely represents the composer’s original conception of the air than does the slightly more ornamented version found in Besard.
Si jamais mon ame blessée is among the better-known airs de cour attributed to Pierre Guédron. It was first published as a solo air with lute accompaniment by Jean Baptiste Besard in his Thesaurus Harmonicus (Cologne, 1603). For our recording, we have chosen a later setting from the series of prints published by Ballard (1615) which, with its more refined rhythmic subtleties, we believe more closely represents the composer’s original conception of the air than does the slightly more ornamented version found in Besard.
lyrics
Si jamais mona me blessée
Loge aileurs qu’en vous sa pensée
Puissay-je estre pour chastiment
Privé de tout contentement.
Si jamais l’amour d’autre dame
Eschauffe mon Coeur de sa flame,
Puis-je esprouver les rigeurs
De toutes sortes de malheurs.
Si jamais le temps ny l’absence
Peuvent esbranler ma constance,
Puis-je sans aucun secours
Languir le sestet de mes jours.
Bref, soyés moy toujours cruelle
Autant que vous me sembles belle,
Si je mancque a vostre beauté
D’amour, & de fidelité.
If ever my wounded soul
Had thoughts for anyone but you,
I should, for punishment,
Be deprived of all contentment.
If ever the love of another lady
Torches my heart with its flame,
May I suffer the rigors
Of all sorts of misery.
If ever time or absence
Should shake my constancy,
May I, without succor,
Languish the rest of my days.
In short, be cruel to me for all my days,
As you now seem beautiful to me,
If I fail to match your beauty
With love and fidelity.
Loge aileurs qu’en vous sa pensée
Puissay-je estre pour chastiment
Privé de tout contentement.
Si jamais l’amour d’autre dame
Eschauffe mon Coeur de sa flame,
Puis-je esprouver les rigeurs
De toutes sortes de malheurs.
Si jamais le temps ny l’absence
Peuvent esbranler ma constance,
Puis-je sans aucun secours
Languir le sestet de mes jours.
Bref, soyés moy toujours cruelle
Autant que vous me sembles belle,
Si je mancque a vostre beauté
D’amour, & de fidelité.
If ever my wounded soul
Had thoughts for anyone but you,
I should, for punishment,
Be deprived of all contentment.
If ever the love of another lady
Torches my heart with its flame,
May I suffer the rigors
Of all sorts of misery.
If ever time or absence
Should shake my constancy,
May I, without succor,
Languish the rest of my days.
In short, be cruel to me for all my days,
As you now seem beautiful to me,
If I fail to match your beauty
With love and fidelity.
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from Divine Amarillis: Airs De Court 1570-1640,
released March 1, 2006
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Mignarda Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Mignarda specializes in thoughtful programming illuminating the vibrant mingling of renaissance music & poetry. Noted for awakening modern audiences to an appreciation for historical music, their work encompasses concertizing, teaching & recording, with 17 critically-acclaimed CDs, a series of 16 music editions, scholarly articles, reviews and the internationally-popular blog, Unquiet Thoughts. ... more
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