Sept Sonnets de Louise Labé (2021) for soprano and piano by Thomas Oboe Lee Sheet Music for Vocal Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Thomas Oboe Lee

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Thomas Oboe Lee

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 59

Arrangement Vocal Solo

Publisher Thomas Oboe Lee

Level 4

Product ID 966098

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Soprano Voice

Product Description

Louise Labé (1524-1566) wrote 24 sonnets. I read somewhere (probably wikipedia) she was inspired by Francesco Petrach (1304-1374) when she wrote her sonnets, so much so that the first sonnet is in Italian. In 2014 I wrote a song cycle of poems by Gaspara Stampa who was a contemporary of Labé. Both poets wrote about the suffering and longing due to unrequited love.

Of the 24 I chose seven.

1. Sonnet 1 ... Non havria Ulysse o qualqu'atro mai
2. Sonnet 2 ... O beaus yeux bruns
3. Sonnet 3 ... Deus ou trois fois bienheureus la retour
4. Sonnet 8 ... Je vis, je meurs: je me brule et me noye
5. Sonnet 12 ... Lut, compagnon de ma calamité
6. Sonnet 18 ... Baise m'encor, rebaise moi et baise
7. Sonnet 23 ... Las! que me sert, que si parfaitement

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