Plaisir d’amour, composed in the 18th century by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, is a French romance whose bittersweet theme of love’s fleeting joys has inspired generations, most famously adapted by Elvis Presley in “Can’t Help Falling in Love.” Paired with the American folk ballad Careless Love, a tune sung by artists from Joan Baez to Ray Charles, the combination highlights the universality of love’s pleasures and pains.
This arrangement is four pages long, and is playable on lever or pedal harp, in G Major with only a couple of accidental changes.