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Comédie-Ballet, Divertissement royal, Dormez beaux yeux, Google, Interlude, Intermède, Les Amants magnifiques, Lully, Molière, Pastoral
Les Amants magnifiques, Interlude – Lully / Molière
“Dormez, dormez,” is part of an “interlude” in Molière-Lully’s Les Amants magnifiques, a comédie-ballet and divertissement royal.
Tirsis, Lycaste and Ménandre sing together while Caliste sleeps.
(Tirsis, Lycaste and Ménandre)
Dormez, dormez, beaux yeux, adorables vainqueurs,
Et goûtez le repos que vous ôtez aux cœurs,
Dormez, dormez, beaux yeux.
[Sleep on, sleep on, fair eyes, lovely conquerors; And taste that peace which you wrest from all hearts; Sleep on, sleep on, fair eyes.]
(Tirsis)
Silence, petits oiseaux,
Vents, n’agitez nulle chose,
Coulez doucement, ruisseaux,
C’est Caliste qui repose.
Intermède (III. iv, p. 19)
[Now silence keep, ye little birds;/ Ye winds, stir nought around;/ Ye stream, run sweetly on:/ For Caliste is slumbering.]
RELATED ARTICLE
- Les Amants magnifiques as a comédie-ballet (4 October 2019)
Sources and Resources
- Our translator is Henri van Laun, Internet Archive
- Les Amants magnifiques is a toutmolière.net publication
I thought I would separate this interlude from a post on Les Amants magnifiques. Musical interludes are best heard and seen. This segment is a Pastoral. So, the characters are shepherds and shepherdesses.
Jean-Baptiste Lully – “Les Amants magnifiques” (LWV 42), comédie en cinq actes de Molière, mêlée de musique et d’entrées de ballet, créée à Saint-Germain-en-Laye devant le roi le 4 février 1670 dans le cadre du “Divertissement Royal”. Troisième intermède, scène 4 (Tircis, Lycaste et Ménandre) (YouTube)
Dormez, beaux yeux
Jean-François Lombard, ténor
Jérôme Billy, ténor
Virgile Ancely, basse
© Micheline Walker
17 October 2019
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Interesting to know this things, indeed…
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It may be interesting to some, but not in the least to others. I think the music is lovely, but I am who I am and at this point in my life, I am unlikely to change. I wanted to share this post to show how a a comédie-ballet worked without giving lengthy explanations. If you didn’t like it, you may perhaps like another post. It is all very subjective. If I showed a lovely photograph everyday, I would probably have more followers. I’ll go and look at your weblog. Be happy.
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…I am a man who likes many different and interesting subjects, from all the areas of science, art, spirituality, etc. And yes, I did liked your post very much…
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Thank you Ianus. I enjoy learning very much and there are so many areas to explore. I knew your weblog. We share similar interests. I’ll visit your post again. Be well.
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Thank you very much for your kind words, wish you all the best with your blog in the future! 🙂
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Ianus, you are now part of my WordPress community. All of you are very dear to me. Best wishes for the future. 🙂
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Thank you very much! 🙂
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I like this
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So simple and lovely. I believe most of the music belonging to “comédies-ballets” has now been recorded, and there are little treasures.
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How lovely, as all Lully’s music is!
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This music was ignored until the late 1970s. Suddenly people were exploring the comédies-ballets. I believe the first book was published in 1985. Molière wrote all the lyrics. They were set to music by Lully. The first comédie-ballet was “Les Fâcheux.” It was performed at Vaux-le-Vicomte, Foucquet’s splendid castle.
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I didn’t come to the West until late 70s, so I wouldn’t know what was popular here, but I feel in love with Baroque music in college.
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Vivaldi was known, but classical music wasn’t well known. My situation was different. My mother hosted a classical music program on the radio and my father chose the music. He became the chief engineer of the station and designed sophisticated sound systems. I was sent to music school and I was church organist for several years. I was also taught Gregorian music. I knew Mussorgsky when I was six years old. My family was different. We learned diction and also attended drama school: perfect French. Love my dear.
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My family was not so different from many Jewish families in Odessa, where all girls played piano and all boys played violin, starting at the age of four. I also attended music school, followed by music and arts college. My mother, however, had been a true piano prodigy before the war. She was ten years old when the women of the family were being evacuated to the East, and the train was bombed. They survived, unlike many other passengers, but my mother was badly wounded by shrapnel, ruining her chances of becoming a professional pianist.
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That’s how it was in my family. The four of us were also a fine barber shop quartet. I quite enjoyed my career as church organist. I had to learn to play all the scales using my feet. One learns! I think families are basically the same.
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As Leo Tolstoy stated in Anna Karenina, “All happy families are alike; all unhappy families are unhappy in their own manner.” Years of working with severely emotionally disabled children and their dysfunctional families has taught me that families are very different.
I would suggest that you and I have so much in common, dear friend, because our families had been of the same social class of highly educated, cultural people.
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Brilliant!
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He was, wasn’t he! Although a man of nasty, obnoxious personality…
Have a wonderful day, dear Micheline.
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❤
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My father was the chief-engineer of Sherbrooke’s radio stations and he and is friends gathered at our house to listen to music. They were well-educated. So was my mother.
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