Je suis deseritee

François Dubois's Je suis deseritee opens with a plaintive melody, swiftly taken up by the three voices in a close, imitative texture. The composer’s setting of this secular French poem perfectly captures the text’s sense of abandonment and sorrow. The singer expresses her grief at losing her love, alone and full of tears, and implores a nightingale to carry her torment to her absent friend. The musical lines, though often moving in parallel thirds and sixths, possess an independent grace. The gentle descent in the final phrase mirrors the profound sadness of being left alone.