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Me2 chorus

season 2023-2024 Sarah Mitchell, music director

Nous Voyons Que Les Hommes by Jacob Arcadelt

First published: 1554 in Tiers livre de chansons

Sheetmusic with (bigger) French (only) text

Sarah's recordings

Soprano
Alto
Baritone

Nous voy- ons que les hom- mes
font tous ver- tu d’ai- mer
Et, sot- tes que nous som- mes,
vou- lons _ -l’a- mour blâ- mer.

Ce qui leur est lou- a- ble
Nous tour- neà dés- hon _ _ _ _ _ neur,
Et faute i- nex- cu- sa- ble,
O du- re loi d’hon _ _ _ _ _ neur

Na- tu- re, plus qu’eux sa- ge,
nous a en un _ _ _ _ corps mis
Plus pro- preà cet u- sa- ge
et nous est moins _ _ _ _ _ per- mis.
Plus pro- preà cet u- sa- ge
et nous est moins _ _ _ _ _ per- mis.

ALTO 

Nous voy- ons que les hom- mes
font tous ver- tu d’ai- mer
Et, sot- tes que nous som- mes, _ _
vou _ _ lons l’a- mour blâ- mer.

Ce qui leur est lou- a- ble
Nous tour- neà dés- hon _ _ _ _ _ neur,
Et faute i- nex- cu _ _ sa- ble,
O du _ _ _ _ re loi _ _ _ d’hon _ _ neur

Na- tu- re, plus qu’eux sa _ _ _ _ _ge,
nous a _ _ _ _ en _ _ _ un corps mis
Plus pro- preà cet u- sa- ge et moins _ _ _ _ _
est moins per- mis.
Plus pro- preà cet u- sa- ge
et nous _ _ _ _ _ est moins per- mis.

BARITONE

Nous voy- ons que les hom- mes
font tous ver- tu d’ai- mer
Et, sot- tes que nous som- mes,
vou- lons _ -l’a- mour blâ- mer.

Ce qui leur est lou- a- ble
Nous _ _ _ tour- neà dés- hon- neur,
Et faute i- nex- cu- sa- ble,
O _ _ _ du- re loi _ _ d’hon- neur

Na- tu- re, plus qu’eux sa- ge,
Nous a en un corps mis
Plus pro- preà cet u- sa- ge _ _ _ _ _ 
et nous est moins per- mis.
Plus pro- preà cet u- sa- ge _ _ _ _ _ 
et nous est moins per- mis.

TRANSLATION

Men, plainly enough, all think it
a feather in their cap if they make lov
It is foolish of us women
to speak ill of love:

what is seen as praiseworthy for them
is dishonourable for us
and an inexcusable fault;
morality is harsh.

Nature has more sense than they do:
it has given us a body
better designed than men’s for amorous practices,
yet to us they are more forbidden.

Translation by Mick Swithinbank


I Believe by Mark A. Miller
 I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining.
 I believe in love even when I don’t feel it.
 I believe in God even when God is silent.
 
Words scratched on the walls of a cellar in Cologne, Germany by a Jew hiding from Nazi persecution. *quote and primary source below from Research Article  by EVERETT HOWE part V

-* On June 26, 1945, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Nachrichten published a “special correspondence” from an unnamed reporter writing from Cologne...The article is about Catholic resistance to the Nazis in Cologne. It speaks of the underground bomb shelters used by the Catholic community, and of disused underground passages in old buildings that the Catholic resistance used as refuges from the Gestapo. Here is the relevant section,..[translated] by Nicholas Kontje: "At one point, nine Jewish fugitives hid here for four months without ever being caught...The following inscription is written on the wall of one of these underground rooms, which in some ways resemble the Roman catacombs: “I believe in the sun, though it be dark; I believe in God, though He be silent; I believe in neighborly love, though it be unable to reveal itself.” ...Note that the reporter says that they have seen the underground shelter with their own eyes.



SATBpiano pdf
musescore file
musescore SATBpiano score


Dona Nobis Pacem
simplified
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tenor and bass
(Right click to control movie)



Lift Up Your Voices
simplified
musescore file
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bass 
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Ritorni al Nostro Cor
simplified
musescore file
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tenor and bass 
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Come live with Me and be My Love
simplified
musescore file
musecore link

bass 
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Me2 Chorus 2023, director: Johnny Nichols, Jr.
April 4 Rehearsal Pieces
:Ave Verum Corpus
:An Irish Blessing 
:Wanting Memories

An Irish Blessing, composed by: Dominick DiOrio

Bass part 1 Bass Part 2
Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel and arranged with lyrics by Noel Goemanne

Canon in D (Pachelbel/Goemanne) - Bass


musescore musescore quartet
Wanting Memories - Ysaye M. Barnwell


Bass mp3 musescore
You Are Enough: A Mental Health Suite (III. You Are Enough) (SATB Choir) - Music by Aron Accurso

Bass mp3
Ave Verum by William Byrd


bass mp3 musescore musescore quartet
Ephiphany School Early Learning Center, 230 Centre St, Dorchester, 02124
7-9pm

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musescore
 *to play musecsore files download app at https://musescore.com/apps for mobile and 
  for desktop windows and mac


tech
from powershell
 scp -r E:\OneDrive\chorus\me2\2024\*.* 107.175.134.21:\var\www\html\files\me2\2024
from wsl bash

to copy only changes
 rsync -r /mnt/c/Users/mcken/OneDrive/chorus/me2/2024/*.* 107.175.134.21:/var/www/html/files/me2/2024
to make additional copy
 scp -r /mnt/c/Users/mcken/OneDrive/chorus/me2/2024/*.* 107.175.134.21:/var/www/html/files/me2/2024

I like singing with these guys too. On piece by the flute choir is the Captain Kangaroo theme song

Hi Singers,

I found a youtube recording of Nous Voyons Que  Les Hommes. 

The cognitive dissidence of seeing the words in English of a completely different song was too much for me. Also, the text was too small for my old eyes so I made a new version of the sheet music in French only with bigger text.

I also found a translation of the French. What a cool "chancon".

There is this open source program called Musescore 3 that I used to create the sheet music and playable score. There is a link to that score which has a mixer so you can change the balance between the parts. 

Thinking that someone else might find them useful, I put them all here: Nous Voyons Que  Les Hommes -extra stuff