Guillaume de Machaut: Amours me fait désirer

Guillaume de Machaut, a leading French composer and poet of the 14th century, was born in Rheims, were he spent the greater part of his life, after earlier employment in the service of John of Luxemburg, King of Bohemia. He was employed subsequently by various members of the nobility, including the future Charles V of France. He held various church benefices and as a musician was pre-eminent in the period in the history of music known as the Ars nova, when composers created music of increased rhythmic complexity.
Machaut was a prolific composer of secular vocal music, in the contemporary metrical and musical forms of lais, virelais, ballades and rondeaux.

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• Performers:
• Ensemble
• Gilles
• Binchois
• Dominique
• Vellard

[gr4l9um20b7o]

0:10

[micrologus2]

@gr4l9um20b7o : ???

[corc1130]

Love makes me desire

And love;

But so foolishly

That I cannot hope



[corc1130]

Or think Or imagine at all That the sweet lovely face That strikes the spark of love within me Might give me joy. If love does not do his work So well That I might have her without asking. I have such hardship to endure That I can scarcely Live much longer. For in my heart I wish to hide And bear This love secretly. Without asking for relief. For in torment I would rather end my life. And so I have no thought Indeed That I might have her without asking.

[corc1130]

But desire inflames And redoubles This love so fiercely That it makes me forget everything for it. Nor do I have Any thought but for her alone; And therefore lovingly. Humbly. I languish without tasting joy. And I will die of it, unless soon She agrees That I might have her without asking. Text revision and translation © Jennifer Garnham

[corc1130]

Mais desirs fait embraser Et doubler Ceste amour si asprement Que tout me fait oublier, Ne penser N'ay fors à li suelement; Et pour ce amoureusement Humblement Langui sans joie gouster. S'en morray, se temprement Ne s'assent Que je l'aie sans rouver.

[corc1130]

Three-voice ballade. Sources: Machaut Manuscripts A B C D & G Lyrics Amours me fait desirer Et amer De cuer si folettement Que je ne puis esperer Ne penser N'ymaginer nullement Que le dous viaire gent Qui m'esprent Me doie joie donner, S'amours ne fait proprement Telement Que je l'aie sans rouver.

[awfulguitarplaying]

@erucolindo87 I guess so, from "Le Jugement Du Roi De Navarre" album.

[erucolindo87]

This is really, really lovely! Was this Ensemble Gilles Binchois? Do we know who's singing?

[gr4l9um20b7o]

And that's the first time of that chord's appearance in the song.

[gr4l9um20b7o]

Oh I think the chord at 0:12 is special.