Ce moys de may (Guillaume Dufay)

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(Posted 2008-02-15) CPDL #16002:

Editor: Brian Russell (submitted 2008-02-15). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 39 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Editor: N. Nakamura (submitted 2006-03-20). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 88 kB Copyright: Personal

General Information

Title: Ce moys de may
Composer: Guillaume Dufay

Number of voices: 3vv Voicings: SAT or STT
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

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Original text and translations

French text

Ce moys de may soyons liés et joyeux
Et de nos cuer ostons mélancolie.

Chantons, dansons et menons chiere lie
Pour despiter ces félons envieux.

Plus c'onques mais chascuns soit curieux,
De bien servir sa maistresse jolie.

Ce moys de may soyons liés et joyeux,
Et de nos cuer ostons mélancolie.

English translation

This month of May together let’s be gay
And banish melancholy from our heart.

Let’s sing, let’s dance, let glee from us not part
To spite the jealous scoundrels ‘long the way.

And nevermore let any man gainsay
That with our lovely maidens we are smart.

This month of May together let’s be gay
And banish melancholy from our heart.

Translation by Thomas Daughton