Je ne puis vivre ainsy toujours Au main que j’aye en mes dolours Quelque confort Une seule heure ou mains ou fort Et tou les jours Leaument serviray amours Jusqu’a la mort. Noble femme de nom et d’armes, Escript vous ay ce dittier cy ce dittier cy. Des ieux plourant a chauldes larmes Affin qu’ayes de moy merchy, ce moy merchy. Quant a moi, je me meurs boncours Velant les nuits faisant cent tours En criant fort “Vengence en a Dieu, car a grant tort Je noye en plours” Lors qu’au besoin me fault secours Et Pitie dort. Je ne puis vivre ainsy toujours… I cannot live like this forever Unless I have some comfort For my pain Just one hour, or less - or more And every day I’ll serve the god of love faithfully Unto death. Noble woman, in name and arms, Pay close attention to this poem So that, eyes streaming with hot tears, You may have mercy on me. As to me, I am wasting away Awake at night, walking in a hundred circles Crying aloud to God “Vengeance! For most unjustly I’m drowning in tears.” Just when I need it I get no help And pity sleeps. I cannot live like this forever…
Antoine was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay. He would know Johannes Ockeghem when he became a subdeacon at the collegiate church of St. Martin of Tours in 1465. In 1467 he was listed along with Hayne van Ghizeghem (another Flemish polyphonist, author of 'De tous biens plaine') and Adrien Basin as "chantre et valet de chambre" to the Burgundian Court in 1467. Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Busnois
Antoine Busnois, also called Antoine De Busne, (born c. 1430, probably at or near Béthune, Fr.-died Nov. 6, 1492, Bruges [now in Belgium]), French composer, best-known for his chansons, which typify the Burgundian style of the second half of the 15th century. Busnois entered the service of Charles the Bold (later duke of Burgundy) as a singer sometime before 1467. He traveled with Charles on his various campaigns, and after Charles’s death in 1477, he remained a member of the ducal chapel in service to Charles’s heir, Mary of Burgundy, until her death in 1482. His activities after this period are not known for certain, but at the time of his death, Busnois held the post of rector cantoriae at the church of Saint-Sauveur, in Bruges. In his later years, his reputation as a composer was second only to that of Ockeghem among his contemporaries. His chansons (about 60 have survived) were admired particularly for their melodic beauty, rhythmic complexity, harmonic colour, and clarity of structure. In addition to the chansons for three or four voices, Busnois wrote two masses, eight motets, two hymns, a Magnificat, and a Credo. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Busnois
Thank you for having this video up, wouldn't have been able to study this song if it wasn't here.
Thank you for sharing this masterpiece. Artesian compose, i'm really proud to live were he borned
Je ne puis vivre ainsy toujours
Au main que j’aye en mes dolours
Quelque confort
Une seule heure ou mains ou fort
Et tou les jours
Leaument serviray amours
Jusqu’a la mort.
Noble femme de nom et d’armes,
Escript vous ay ce dittier cy ce dittier cy.
Des ieux plourant a chauldes larmes
Affin qu’ayes de moy merchy, ce moy merchy.
Quant a moi, je me meurs boncours
Velant les nuits faisant cent tours
En criant fort
“Vengence en a Dieu, car a grant tort
Je noye en plours”
Lors qu’au besoin me fault secours
Et Pitie dort.
Je ne puis vivre ainsy toujours…
I cannot live like this forever
Unless I have some comfort
For my pain
Just one hour, or less - or more
And every day
I’ll serve the god of love faithfully
Unto death.
Noble woman, in name and arms,
Pay close attention to this poem
So that, eyes streaming with hot tears,
You may have mercy on me.
As to me, I am wasting away
Awake at night, walking in a hundred circles
Crying aloud to God
“Vengeance! For most unjustly
I’m drowning in tears.”
Just when I need it I get no help
And pity sleeps.
I cannot live like this forever…
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Antoine was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay. He would know Johannes Ockeghem when he became a subdeacon at the collegiate church of St. Martin of Tours in 1465. In 1467 he was listed along with Hayne van Ghizeghem (another Flemish polyphonist, author of 'De tous biens plaine') and Adrien Basin as "chantre et valet de chambre" to the Burgundian Court in 1467.
Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Busnois
Antoine Busnois, also called Antoine De Busne, (born c. 1430, probably at or near Béthune, Fr.-died Nov. 6, 1492, Bruges [now in Belgium]), French composer, best-known for his chansons, which typify the Burgundian style of the second half of the 15th century.
Busnois entered the service of Charles the Bold (later duke of Burgundy) as a singer sometime before 1467. He traveled with Charles on his various campaigns, and after Charles’s death in 1477, he remained a member of the ducal chapel in service to Charles’s heir, Mary of Burgundy, until her death in 1482. His activities after this period are not known for certain, but at the time of his death, Busnois held the post of rector cantoriae at the church of Saint-Sauveur, in Bruges.
In his later years, his reputation as a composer was second only to that of Ockeghem among his contemporaries. His chansons (about 60 have survived) were admired particularly for their melodic beauty, rhythmic complexity, harmonic colour, and clarity of structure. In addition to the chansons for three or four voices, Busnois wrote two masses, eight motets, two hymns, a Magnificat, and a Credo.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Busnois
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