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Fortune hellas tu feis
Staff Notation • Secular, Chansons
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Fortune hellas tu feis by Thomas Crecquillon — Lyrics
Fortune hellas, tu fais mal ton devoir :
quand tu voulus en tes lacs me surprendre,
que ne me fit ta puissance à scavoir,
pour me garder envers toy de mesprendre.
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About Fortune hellas tu feis
Imagine a festive gathering in a Renaissance court, where witty chansons provided entertainment. Thomas Crecquillon’s Fortune hellas tu feis, for SATT voices, fits this setting perfectly. This secular French song offers a lament to Fortune, personified as a capricious force. The singer laments that Fortune ensnared them without warning, failing to instruct them on how to avoid such a predicament. They express that they were not skilled in the ways of love and that Fortune should have guided them, rather than leading them into error. The music likely reflects the text’s expressive complaints with a blend of Renaissance polyphony and lyrical melody.
