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Il me prend fantasie
Staff Notation • Secular, Chansons
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Il me prend fantasie by Jacques Arcadelt — Lyrics
Middle French
1. Il me prend fantasie
de vous dire
comment suis souvent
de ma mye traicté heureusement
car il ne fault pour rien
céder ung si grand bien
2. Mais premier vous veulx dire
que sa grande beaulté
nul nest qui ne desire
user de privauté
et avoir de ses yeulx
ung regard gratieux
3. Nature'a faict en elle
ce qu'à peu daultre'a faict
layant faicte si belle
qui nest rien si perfaict
celuy iestime'heureux
qui est son amoureux
4. Elle me faict la grace
de mappeler ainsy
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About Il me prend fantasie
Jacques Arcadelt's Il me prend fantasie is a secular French chanson for SATB choir. This Renaissance part-song is from a collection first published in Venice in 1542. The text, written in Middle French, expresses the singer's delight in his beloved. He describes her beauty and the happiness he feels when she calls him to her side. He praises her perfections, noting that nature has rarely created anyone so lovely. The composer captures the romantic sentiments of the poem with flowing melodic lines and rich harmonic textures characteristic of the Franco-Flemish school's contribution to the chanson tradition.
