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The Oxford book of English madrigals / edited by Philip Ledger.

Contributor(s): Material type: ScoreScorePublication details: London : Oxford University Press, Music Dept., c1978.Description: score (403 p.), [1] p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0193436647
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • M1579 .O95
Contents:
All creatures now / John Bennet -- Adieu, sweet Amaryllis / John Wilbye -- Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers / Thomas Tomkins -- Ah, dear heart / Orlando Gibbons -- April is in my mistress' face / Thomas Morley -- As Vesta was / Thomas Weelkes -- Come away, sweet love / Thomas Greaves -- Come, gentle swains / Michael Cavendish -- Come, sable night / John Ward -- Consture my meaning / Giles Farnaby -- Come, sirrah Jack, ho! / Weelkes -- Dainty fine bird / Gibbons -- Draw on, sweet night / Wilbye -- Fair nymphs, I heard one telling / John Farmer -- Flora gave me fairest flowers / Wilbye -- Fair Phyllis l saw / Farmer -- Fyer, fyer! ; Hard by a crystal fountain / Morley -- Hark, all ye lovely saints / Weelkes -- Lady, when I behold / Wilbye -- I love, alas, I love thee ; Leave, alas, this tormenting / Morley -- Lullaby, my sweet little baby / William Byrd -- Mother, I will have a husband / Thomas Vautor -- Music divine / Tomkins -- My bonny lass she smileth ; Now is the month of maying / Morley -- O care, thou wilt despatch me ; Hence, care, thou art too cruel / Weelkes -- Out from the vale / Ward -- O what shall I do? / Wilbye -- O yes! Has any found a lad? / Tomkins -- O that the learned poets / Gibbons -- Poor is the life ; Quick, quick, away, dispatch! ; No haste but good! / Michael East -- See, see the shepherds' queen / Tomkins -- Since Robin Hood / Weelkes -- See what a maze of error / George Kirbye -- Sing we and chant it / Morley -- Strike it up, tabor ; Sing we at pleasure / Weelkes -- Sleep, fleshly birth / Robert Ramsey -- Sweet honey-sucking bees ; Yet, sweet, take heed / Wilbye -- Sweet Suffolk owl / Vautor -- The silver swan / Gibbons -- This sweet and merry month of May ; Though Amaryllis dance / Byrd -- Though Philomela lost her love / Morley -- Those sweet delightful lilies / Thomas Bateson -- Thule, the period of cosmography ; The Andalusian merchant ; Thus sings my dearest jewel / Weelkes -- Too much I once lamented / Tomkins -- Trust not too much, fair youth / Gibbons -- Weep, O mine eyes / Bennet -- Weep, weep, mine eyes / Wilbye -- What is our life? / Gibbons -- Whither away so fast? / Morley.
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For 3-6 mixed voices.

"Critical commentary by Andrew Parker": p. 399-[404]

WAR, NEWBERY,

All creatures now / John Bennet -- Adieu, sweet Amaryllis / John Wilbye -- Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers / Thomas Tomkins -- Ah, dear heart / Orlando Gibbons -- April is in my mistress' face / Thomas Morley -- As Vesta was / Thomas Weelkes -- Come away, sweet love / Thomas Greaves -- Come, gentle swains / Michael Cavendish -- Come, sable night / John Ward -- Consture my meaning / Giles Farnaby -- Come, sirrah Jack, ho! / Weelkes -- Dainty fine bird / Gibbons -- Draw on, sweet night / Wilbye -- Fair nymphs, I heard one telling / John Farmer -- Flora gave me fairest flowers / Wilbye -- Fair Phyllis l saw / Farmer -- Fyer, fyer! ; Hard by a crystal fountain / Morley -- Hark, all ye lovely saints / Weelkes -- Lady, when I behold / Wilbye -- I love, alas, I love thee ; Leave, alas, this tormenting / Morley -- Lullaby, my sweet little baby / William Byrd -- Mother, I will have a husband / Thomas Vautor -- Music divine / Tomkins -- My bonny lass she smileth ; Now is the month of maying / Morley -- O care, thou wilt despatch me ; Hence, care, thou art too cruel / Weelkes -- Out from the vale / Ward -- O what shall I do? / Wilbye -- O yes! Has any found a lad? / Tomkins -- O that the learned poets / Gibbons -- Poor is the life ; Quick, quick, away, dispatch! ; No haste but good! / Michael East -- See, see the shepherds' queen / Tomkins -- Since Robin Hood / Weelkes -- See what a maze of error / George Kirbye -- Sing we and chant it / Morley -- Strike it up, tabor ; Sing we at pleasure / Weelkes -- Sleep, fleshly birth / Robert Ramsey -- Sweet honey-sucking bees ; Yet, sweet, take heed / Wilbye -- Sweet Suffolk owl / Vautor -- The silver swan / Gibbons -- This sweet and merry month of May ; Though Amaryllis dance / Byrd -- Though Philomela lost her love / Morley -- Those sweet delightful lilies / Thomas Bateson -- Thule, the period of cosmography ; The Andalusian merchant ; Thus sings my dearest jewel / Weelkes -- Too much I once lamented / Tomkins -- Trust not too much, fair youth / Gibbons -- Weep, O mine eyes / Bennet -- Weep, weep, mine eyes / Wilbye -- What is our life? / Gibbons -- Whither away so fast? / Morley.