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Dont vient cela
Staff Notation • Secular, Chansons
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Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
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Dont vient cela by Thomas Crecquillon — Lyrics
D’où vient cela, Belle, je vous supply,
Que plus à moy ne vous recommandez?
Tousjours seray de tristesse remply,
Jusques à temps qu’au vray me le mandez:
Je croy que plus d’Amy ne demandez,
Ou maulvais bruyt de moy on vous revelle,
Ou vostre cueur a faict amour nouvelle.
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About Dont vient cela
The singer asks his beloved why she no longer shows him favour. He laments that he will be filled with sadness until she tells him the truth. He suspects she no longer wants him as a lover, or that bad rumours have reached her, or that she has found a new love. If she has abandoned love, her beauty will become a prison. If she has forgotten him for another, God grant her the success she seeks. But if she wrongly suspects him of anything, he insists that she should be as cruel to him as she is beautiful. Thomas Crecquillon’s chanson is here presented for SSATB voices in its original French, a fine example of secular part-music from the Renaissance.
