Je voudrois bien chanter

The composer Pierre Guédron sets a text here that longs to sing the praises of a Queen, the mother of three gods, whose virtues reach the heavens. The universal admiration for her beauty and prudence is celebrated, with the heavens themselves desiring that all mortals adore her. This elegant French secular song is written for solo voice with lute accompaniment, a genre popular in the early Baroque period for intimate and expressive musical settings of poetry. Guédron, a prominent composer of the era, crafted many such works for the French court.