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Publisher. Info.
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London: printed for John Playford, 1652.
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Misc. Notes
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Royal College of Music Library, London (GB-Lcm): C48/1
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⇒ 4 more: Complete Books 1-3 • The First Book (Ayres) • The Second Book (Pastoral Dialogues) • The Third Book (Ayres For Three Voices)
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London: T. H. for John Playford, 1653.
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Work Title
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Select musicall ayres and dialogues, in three bookes
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Alternative. Title
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Composer
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Playford, John
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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None [force assignment]
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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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3
- For 1 or 2 voices to sing to the Theorbo, Lute or Bass Viol
- Lanier: Like Hermit poor
- Wilson: Take, o take those lips away
- Johnson: As I walked forth one summer’s day
- R. Smith: She which would not I would chuse
- Lawes: Why shouldst thou swear I am forsworn
- Lanier: I whish no more thou shouldst love me
- Anonymous: When thou didst think I did not love
- Lawes: Come lovers all to me
- Lanier: Thou art not fair for all thy red and white
- Lawes: Amidst the myrtles
- Lawes: Faith be no longer coy
- Lawes: I am confirmed a woman can
- Lawes: How cool and temperate I am grown
- Lawes: A lover once I did espy
- Lawes: O My Clarissa
- Lanier: Neither sighs nor tears
- Webb: Of the kind boy I ask no red and white
- Webb: She that loves me for myself
- Mr. Caesar: If any live that fain would prove
- Lawes: Tell me you wandering spirits of the air
- Lawes: Bid me but live
- Lawes: Tell me no more her eyes are like
- Lawes: If the quick spirit of your eye
- Lawes: Phillis, why should we delay
- Webb: Victorious beauty! through your eyes
- Lawes: How happy art thou and I
- Joh. Taylor: Lay that sullen Garland by
- Lawes: Fain would I Chloris e're I die
- Wilson: I love a lass, but cannot show it
- Wilson: Cloris, false love made Clora weep,
- Anonymous: Wer't thou more fairer the thou art
- Coleman: Stay, stay, o stay, that heart
- Coleman: Wake my Adonis, do not die
- Coleman: Bright Aurelia, I do owe
- Coleman: Never perswade me too't,
- Coleman: How am I changed from what I was
- Wilson: Since love hath in thine and mine eye
- Lawes: About the Sweet Bag of the Bee
- Lawes: Cloris, farewell, I now must go
- Lawes: Let not thy beauty make thee proud
- Lawes: Come lovely Phillis since it thy will is
- Lawes: A willow garland thou didst send
- Lawes: Little love serves my turn
- Lawes: By all thy glories willingly I go
- Lawes: No no fair Heretick
- Lawes: Beauty and Love once fell at odds
- Webb: Go, go, and bestride the southern wind
- Cenci: Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da lieti amanti (alternate lyrics set to Fuggi, fuggi, fuggi da questo cielo)
- Coleman: To Bacchus, we to Bacchus sing
- Coleman: Quench insprightly wine
- Lanier: I preethee keep my sheep for me
- Lanier: Shephard in faith I cannot stay
- Lawes: Come my Daphne come away
- Mr. Caesar, For beare fond swain, I cannot love
- Coleman: Dear Silva let thy Thirsis know
- Coleman: Did not you once Lucinda vow
- Lawes: Charon, O Charon draw thy Boat
- Lawes: Charon, O gentle Charon
- Ayres or Songs for 3 voyces
- Webb: I wish no more
- Lanier: Yong and simple though I Am
- Lanier: Though I am yong, and cannot tell
- Lawes: Gather your Rose-buds
- Webb: Let her give her hand
- Webb: Not that I wish my Mistresse
- Webb: Chloris, farewell, I must go
- Webb: As the sweet breath and gentle gales
- Webb: Tell me O Damon
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First Publication.
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1652
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Language
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English ; Latin; Italian
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Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Baroque
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Piece Style
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Baroque
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Instrumentation
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1-3 voices, continuo (theorbo and/or bass-viol)
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Related Works
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This collection by John Playford had a second printing in 1659 titled "Select Ayres and Dialogues" which was reprinted as "The Treasury of Musick" in 1669
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Navigation etc.
Named composers (no links for those without IMSLP pages): Dr John Wilson, Jeremy Savile, John Taylor, William Smegergill (alias William Caesar), Mr Charles, Mr Warner, Thomas Brewer, William Tompkins.