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En un lieu ou l'on ne voit goutte
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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En un lieu ou l'on ne voit goutte by Orlando di Lasso — Lyrics
Original text
En un lieu où l'on ne voit goutte,
je n’irai jamais sans lumière
car, tant devant comme derrière,
on en a bien souvent la goutte.
Puisque du pertuis je me doute,
chandelle ne me sera chère,
en un lieu où l'on ne voit goutte,
je n’irai jamais sans lumière.
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About En un lieu ou l'on ne voit goutte
Orlando di Lasso's chansons represent a high point of secular part-music in the Renaissance. En un lieu ou l'on ne voit goutte is a four-part setting of a French poem whose speaker declares they will never go anywhere without a light. The original text speaks humorously of needing light to avoid the gout, but a later sacred contrafact version, found in Le thresor de musique d'Orlande de Lassus, transforms the sentiment. In this version, the speaker fears the darkness of the world and seeks the guiding light of God's word, making the chanson a reflection on spiritual guidance and vigilance.
