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D'un coeur fier le refus cruel
Staff Notation • Secular, Chansons
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D'un coeur fier le refus cruel by Claude Le Jeune — Lyrics
D'un coeur fier le refus cruel
M'empli l'âme de feu qui furieus me rend
Et d'un autre le dous acueil
Enflammér de l'amour mon gelé coeur ne peut.
R.: Ainsi ie sui qui me fuit
D'un côté le desir me poind,
Cerchant celle qui fuit pour ne me voir mourir,
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About D'un coeur fier le refus cruel
Claude Le Jeune’s chansons were highly regarded in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This example, D'un coeur fier le refus cruel, is a secular French song for five voices (SATBB). The text expresses the pain of unrequited love, contrasting the cruel rejection from one heart with the inaccessible warmth of another. The singer laments his tormented state, caught between the desire for the one who flees and the disdain of the one who loves him. Le Jeune’s setting captures the emotional turmoil, with the interwoven vocal lines reflecting the complexity of the singer’s feelings as he suffers from a burning passion and the coldness of indifference.
