The Oxford Book of English Madrigals

by Ledger, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780193436640
• ISBN10: 0193436647
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-02-22
• Publisher: Fort Wayne

Summary

Faced with many hundreds of possible candidates for inclusion in The Oxford Book of English Madrigals, the editor worked on the principle that the major composers would each be represented by several madrigals, and the lesser figures by one or more. But no madrigal would be included, for the sake of completeness, if it fell below the outstandingly high level set by the collection as a whole. All have been newly edited from the original sources.

Table of Contents

Bateson: Those Sweet Delightful Lilies

Bennet: All Creature Now

Bennet: Weep, O Mine Eyes

Byrd: Lullaby, My Sweet Little Baby

Byrd: This Sweet and Merry Month of May

Byrd: Though Amaryllis Dance

Cavendish: Come, Gentle Swains

East: Poor is the Life

East: Quick, Quick, Away, Dispatch!

East: No Haste But Good!

Farmer: Fair Nymphs, I Heard One Telling

Farmer: Fair Phyllis I Saw

Farnaby: Consture My Meaning

Gibbons: Ah, Dear Heart

Gibbons: Dainty Fine Bird

Gibbons: O That the Learned Poets

Gibbons: The Silver Swan

Gibbons: Trust Not Too Much, Fair Youth

Gibbons: What is our Life?

Greaves: Come Away, Sweet Love

Kirbye: See What a Maze of Error

Morley: April is in my Mistress' Face

Morley: Fyer, Fyer!

Morley: Hard by a Crystal Fountain

Morley: I Love, Alas, I Love Thee

Morley: Leave, Alas, This Tormenting

Morley: My Bonny Lass She Smileth

Morley: Now is the Month of Maying

Morley: Sing We and Chant It

Morley: Though Philomela Lost Her Love

Morley: Whither Away So Fast?

Ramsey: Sleep, Fleshly Birth

Tomkins: Adieu, Ye City-Prisoning Towers

Tomkins: Music Divine

Tomkins: O Yes! Has any Found a Lad?

Tomkins: See, See the Shepherds' Queen

Tomkins: Too Much I Once Lamented

Vautor: Mother, I Will Have a Husband

Vautor: Sweet Suffolk Owl

Ward: Come, Sable Night

Weelkes: As Vesta Was

Weelkes: Come, Sirrah Jack, Ho!

Weelkes: Hark, All Ye Lovely Saints

Weelkes: O Care, Thou Wilt Despatch Me

Weelkes: Hence, Care, Thou Art Too Cruel

Weelkes: Since Robin Hood

Weelkes: Sing We At Pleasure

Weelkes: Strike It Up, Tabor

Weelkes: Thule the Period of Cosmography

Weelkes: The Andalusian Merchant

Weelkes: Thus Sings My Dearest Jewel

Wilbye: Adieu Sweet Amaryllis

Wilbye: Draw On, Sweet Night

Wilbye: Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers

Wilbye: Lady, When I Behold

Wilbye: O What Shall I Do?

Wilbye: Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees

Wilbye: Yet, Sweet, Take Heed

Wilbye: Weep, Weep, Mine Eyes

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