Ballade de Villon à s'amye

Ballade de Villon à s'amye (MF) Ballad from Villon to His Sweetheart. Debussy's setting (1910, Trois Ballades de François Villon #1) for voice and piano of a ballad from Le Testament (The Testament, 1461). The title is the invention of Clément Marot, dating to 1533, the time he prepared an edition of Villon's works. The first letters of each of the first 14 lines of the poem spell FRANCOYS and MARTHE, the poet's and the sweetheart's first names, respectively. The envoi is addressed to a »Prince…