The English Madrigal School (Fellowes, Edmund Horace)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 36 volumes
First Publication 1913-24
Genre Categories Madrigals; Canzonets; For 2 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; For 3 voices; For 4 voices; English language
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Work Title The English Madrigal School
Alternative. Title
Composer Fellowes, Edmund Horace
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 36 volumes
First Publication. 1913-24
Librettist Various
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Early 20th century
Piece Style Renaissance
Instrumentation voices

Contents

Volume 1 (1913): Thomas Morley: The first book of canzonets to two voices (published in 1595) ; Canzonets, or, Little short songs : to three voices (published in 1593 ; reprinted in 1606 and 1631)

Part 1. Morley: Canzonets to Two Voices
  1. Go Ye My Canzonets
  2. When Lo by Break of Morning
  3. Sweet Nymph Come to Thy Lover
  4. Fantasie à 2 'Il Doloroso'
  5. I Go before My Darling
  6. Fantasie à 2 'La Girandola'
  7. Miraculous Love's Wounding
  8. Lo, here another Love
  9. Fantasie à 2 'Il Rondinella'
  10. Leave now, Mine Eyes
  11. Fire and Lightning from Heaven
  12. Fantasie à 2 'Il Grillo'
  13. Flora wilt Thou Torment Me?
  14. Fantasie à 2 'Il Lamento'
  15. In Nets of Golden Wire
  16. Fantasie à 2 'La Caccia'
  17. O Thou that art so Cruel
  18. Fantasie à 2 'La Sampogna'
  19. I Should for Grief and Anguish
  20. Fantasie à 2 'La Sirena'
  21. Fantasie à 2 'La Torello'
Part 2. Morley: Canzonets to Three Voices
  1. See, See, Myne Own Sweet Jewell
  2. Joy, Joy doth so Arise
  3. Crewell You Pull Away to Soone
  4. Ladie, Those Eyes
  5. Hould Out, My Hart
  6. God Morrow, Fayre Ladies
  7. Whether awaie so Fast
  8. Blow, Shepherds, Blow
  9. Deep Lamenting, Grief Betraying
  10. Farewell, Disdainfull
  11. O Flye Not, O Take Some Pittie
  12. Thirsis, Let Some Pittie Move Thee
  13. Now Must I Dye
  14. Lady, if I through Griefe
  15. Cease Myne Eyes
  16. Doe You Not Know
  17. Where Art Thou, Wanton
  18. What Ayles My Darling
  19. Say Deere, Will You Not Have Me
  20. Arise, Get up My Deere
  21. Love Learnes by Laughing*
  22. This Love is but a Wanton Fit*
  23. Though Philomena Lost Her Love*
  24. O Sleep, Fond Fancy*

Volume 2 (1913): Thomas Morley: First book of madrigals to four voices (published in 1594, and reprinted in 1600) ; Two canzonets to four voices (included by Morley in his Italian collection; published in 1597)

Morley: Madrigals to 4 voyces, Book 1
  1. April is in My Mistress' Face
  2. Clorinda False
  3. Why sit I here, alas, Complaining?
  4. Since my Tears and Lamenting
  5. Help I Fall
  6. Lady, why Grieve You still Me?
  7. In Dew of Roses
  8. In Every Place
  9. Now is the Gentle Season
    The Fields Abroad
  10. Come lovers follow me
  11. No thou doest but flout mee
  12. I will no more come to thee
  13. Besides a fontaine
  14. Sport we my lovely treasure
    O sweet alas, what say you?
  15. Hark jolly shepheards
  16. He who comes here all alone
  17. Dye now my heart
  18. Say gentle Nymphes
  19. Round, round about the wood*
  20. On a fair morning*
Morley: 2 Canzonets for 4 voices:
1. My heart, why hast thou taken
2. Still it frieth

Volume 3 (1913): Thomas Morley: Canzonets, or, Little short airs : to five and six voices (published in 1597) ; Two madrigals (included by Morley in the Triumphs of Oriana ; published in 1601)

Thomas Morley: Canzonets or little short airs to give and six voices
  1. Fly love that art so sprightly
  2. False love did me inveigle
  3. Adieu, adieu you kind and cruel
  4. Love’s folk in green arraying
  5. Love took his bow and arrow
  6. Lo where with flowery head
  7. O grief, e'en on the bud
  8. Sovereign of my delight
  9. Our Bonny-boots could toot it
  10. Ay me, the fatal arrow
  11. My nymph, the dear
  12. Cruel, wilt thou persever
  13. Said I that Amarillis
  14. Damon and Phillis
  15. Lady you think you spite me
  16. You black bright stars
  17. I follow, lo, the footing
  18. Stay heart, run not so fast
  19. Good Love, then fly thou to her
  20. Ladies, you see time flieth
  21. Hark, alleluia
Thomas Morley: Two madrigals from The Triumphs of Oriana:
  1. Arise, awake, you silly shepherds sleeping
  2. Hard by a cristall fountaine

Volume 4 (1913): Thomas Morley: First book of ballets to five voices (published in 1595, and re-printed in 1600)

Thomas Morley: First book of ballets to five voices
  1. Dainty fine sweet Nymph
  2. Shoot false love I care not
  3. Now is the month of Maying
  4. Sing we and chant it
  5. Singing alone
  6. No no Nigella
  7. My bonny lass she smileth
  8. I saw my lovely Phillis
  9. What saith my dainty darling?
  10. Thus saith my Galatea
  11. About the Maypole
  12. My lovely wanton jewel
  13. You that wont to my pipes sound
  14. Fire fire
  15. Those dainty daffadillies
  16. Lady those cherries plenty
  17. I love alas I love thee
  18. Lo she flies
  19. Leave alas this tormenting
  20. Why weeps alas?
  21. Phillis I fain would die now : a dialogue of seven voices.

Volume 5 (1914): Orlando Gibbons: First set of madrigals and motets of five parts (published in 1612)

Orlando Gibbons: First set of madrigals and motets of five parts
  1. The silver swan
  2. O that the learned poets
  3. I weigh not fortune's frown
  4. I tremble not at noise of war
  5. I see ambition never pleased
  6. I feign not friendship
  7. How art thou thralled
  8. Farewell all joys
  9. Dainty fine bird
  10. Fair ladies that to love
  11. Mongst thousands good
  12. Now each flowery bank of May
  13. Lais now old
  14. What is our life?
  15. Ah dear heart
  16. Fair is the rose
  17. Nay let me weep
  18. Ne'er let the sun
  19. Yet if that age
  20. Trust not too much fair youth.

Volume 6 (1914): John Wilbye: First set of madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (published in 1598) ; Madrigal : included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601 ; Two motets : included by Sir William Leighton in "Tears and lamentations," published in 1614

John Wilbye: First set of madrigals to 3, 4, 5 and 6 voices.

Songs of three voices:

  1. Fly love aloft to heaven
  2. Away, thou shalt not love me
  3. Ay me, can every rumour?
  4. Weep O mine eyes
  5. Dear pity, how, ah how?
  6. Ye restless thoughts

Songs of four voices

  1. What needeth all this travail?
  2. O fools can you not see?
  3. Alas, what hope of speeding?
  4. Lady, when I behold
  5. Thus saith my Cloris bright
  6. Adieu sweet Amarillis

Songs of five voices

  1. Die hapless man
  2. I fall, O stay me
  3. And though my love abounding
  4. I always beg
  5. Thus love commands
  6. Lady, your words do spite me
  7. Alas, what a wretched life
  8. Unkind, O stay thy flying
  9. I sung sometimes my thoughts
  10. Flora gave me fairest flowers

Songs of six voices

  1. Sweet love, if thou wilt gain
  2. Lady, when I behold
  3. When shall my wretched life?
  4. Of joys and pleasing pains
  5. My throat is sore
  6. Cruel behold my heavy ending
  7. Thou art but young thou sayest
  8. Why dost thou shoot?

A madrigal from The Triumphs of Oriana: The lady Oriana
Two motets from Leighton's Tears and lamentations:

  1. I am quite tired with my groans
  2. God the rock of my whole strength

Volume 7 (1914): John Wilbye: Second set of madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6 voices (published in 1609)

John Wilbye: Second set of madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices
  1. Come shepherd swains
  2. Flourish, ye hillocks
  3. Ah, cruel Amarilla
  4. So light is love
  5. As fair as morn
  6. O what shall I do?
  7. I live and yet methinks
  8. There is a jewel
  9. When Cloris heard her Amyntas
  10. Happy streams whose trembling fall
  11. Change me, O heavens
  12. Love not me for comely grace
  13. Fly not so swift, my dear
  14. I love, alas, yet am not loved
  15. As matchless beauty
  16. Happy, oh happy he
  17. Sweet honey sucking bees
  18. Yet sweet, take heed
  19. All pleasure is of this condition
  20. Oft have I vowed
  21. Down in a valley
  22. Hard destinies are love and beauty
  23. Weep, weep, mine eyes
  24. There where I saw
  25. Ye that do live in pleasures
  26. A silly Sylvan
  27. O wretched man
  28. Where most my thoughts
  29. Despiteful thus unto myself

Volume 8 (1914): John Farmer: First set of madrigals to four voices : published in 1599 ; A madrigal : included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601

John Farmer: First set of madrigals to four voices; Fair nymph I heard one telling
  1. You pretty flowers that smile / words by Henry Constable
  2. Now each creature joys the other / words by Samuel Daniel
  3. You'll never leave still tossing
  4. Lady my flame still burning
  5. Sweet lord your flame
  6. Soon as the hungry lion / words by B. Griffin
  7. O stay sweet love
  8. I thought my love
  9. Compare me to the child / words by B. Griffin
  10. Who would have thought that face?
  11. Sweet friend thy absence
  12. The flattering words
  13. Cease now thy mourning
  14. A little pretty bonny lass
  15. Fair Phyllis I saw
  16. Take time while time doth last
  17. You blessed bowers

A madrigal from "The Triumphs of Oriana" : Fair nymph I heard one telling

Volume 9 (1916): Thomas Wellkes: Madrigals to 3. 4. 5 and 6 voices (published in 1597)

Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals to 3, 4, 5 and 6 voices

For three voices:

  1. Sit down and sing
  2. My flocks feed not / words by Richard Barnfield
  3. In black mourn I / words by Richard Barnfield
  4. Clear wells spring not / words by Richard Barnfield
  5. A country pair
  6. Cease sorrows now

For four voices:

  1. Now every tree renews
  2. Young Cupid hath proclaimed
  3. Ay me, my wonted joys
  4. Three virgin nymphs
  5. Our country swains
  6. Lo country sports

For five voices:

  1. Your beauty it allureth
  2. If thy deceitful looks
  3. Those sweet delightful lilies
  4. Lady, your spotless feature
  5. Make haste, ye lovers
  6. What haste, fair lady

For six voices

  1. Retire my thoughts
  2. Say, dear, when will your frowning
  3. Those spots upon my lady's face
  4. If beauty be a treasure
  5. My tears do not avail me
  6. My Phyllis bids me pack away

Volume 10 (1916) Thomas Weelkes: Ballets and madrigals to five voices, (published in 1598, reprinted in 1608)

Thomas Weelkes: Ballets and madrigals to five voices
  1. All at once well met
  2. To shorten winter's sadness
  3. Sweet love, I will no more
  4. Whilst youthful sports
  5. On the plains, fairy trains
  6. Sweet heart arise
  7. Give me my heart
  8. Hark all ye lovely saints
  9. Say dainty dames
  10. Phyllis go take thy pleasure
  11. In pride of May
  12. Sing we at pleasure
  13. Now is the bridals
  14. Sing shepherds, after me
  15. Welcome sweet pleasure
  16. Lady your eye
  17. We shepherds sing
  18. I love and have my love regarded
  19. Come clap thy hands (the first part)
  20. Phyllis hath sworn (the second part)
  21. Farewell my joy
  22. Now is my Cloris
  23. Unto our flocks sweet Corolus
  24. Cease now delight : an elogie in remembrance of the Ho: the Lord Borough

Volume 11 (1916) Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals of five parts (published in 1600)

Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals of five parts
  1. Cold winter's ice is fled
  2. Now let us make a merry greeting
  3. Take here my heart
  4. O care, thou wilt dispatch
  5. Hence care, thou art too cruel
  6. See where the maids are singing
  7. Why are you ladies staying?
  8. Hark! I hear some dancing
  9. Lady, the birds right fairly
  10. As wanton birds

Volume 12 (1916) Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals of six parts (published in 1600)

Thomas Weelkes: Madrigals of six parts
  1. Like two proud armies
  2. When Thoralis delights to walk
  3. What have the gods?
  4. Methinks I hear
  5. Three times a day
  6. Mars in a fury
  7. Thule, the period of cosmography
  8. The Andalusian merchant
  9. A sparrow Hawk proud
  10. Noel, adieu, thou court's delight

Volume 13 (1916): Thomas Weelkes: Airs, or, Fantastic spirits : to three voices (published in 1608) ; A madrigal included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601

Thomas Weelkes: Airs or fantastic spirits to three voices; As Vesta was descending
  1. Come let's begin to revel 't out
  2. Jockey thine hornpipe's dull
  3. Some men desire spouses
  4. To-morrow is the marriage day
  5. Upon a hill a bonny boy
  6. Come sirrah Jack ho
  7. Tan ta ra cries Mars
  8. The gods have heard my vows
  9. Though my carriage be but careless
  10. The ape, the monkey and the baboon
  11. No, though I shrink still
  12. Ay me, alas, hey ho
  13. Late is my rash accounting
  14. Four arms, two necks, one wreathing
  15. Lord when I think
  16. Say, wanton, will you love me?
  17. I bei ligustri e rose
  18. Strike it up, tabor
  19. Ha, ha! this world doth pass
  20. Since Robin Hood, maid Marian
  21. Fa la. Now weep, now sing
  22. Alas! O tarry but one half hour
  23. As deadly serpents lurking
  24. Donna il vostro bel viso
  25. The nightingale, the organ of delight
    • For six voices: Death hath deprived me
    • A madrigal from The triumphs of Orian: As Vesta was descending

Volume 14 (1920): William Byrd: Psalms, sonnets and songs of sadness and piety : to five parts : (published in 1588). Two madrigals (included by Nicolas Yonge in his first set of "Musica Transalpina", published in 1588)

William Byrd: Psalms, sonnets and songs of sadness and piety to five parts; The fair young virgin; But so soon
    • Psalms:
  1. O God, give ear
  2. Mine eyes with fervency
  3. My soul oppressed with care
  4. How shall a young man?
  5. O Lord, how long wilt thou forget?
  6. O Lord, who in thy sacred tent
  7. Help, Lord, for wasted are those men
  8. Blessed is he that fears the Lord
  9. Lord, in thy wrath
  10. Even from the depth
    • Sonnets and pastorals:
  1. I joy not in no earthly bliss / words attributed to Sir Edward Dyer
  2. Though Amaryllis dance in green
  3. Who likes to love
  4. My mind to me a kingdom is / words attributed to Sir Edward Dyer
  5. Where fancy fond
  6. O you that hear this voice / Sir Philip Sydney
  7. If women could be fair / Edward, earl of Oxford
  8. Ambitous love
  9. What pleasure have great princes?
  10. As I beheld I saw a herdman
  11. Although the heathen poets
  12. In fields abroad
  13. Constant Penelope
  14. La virginella / Ludovico Ariosto
  15. Farewell, false love / words attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh
  16. The match that's made
    • Songs of sadness and piety
  1. Prostrate, O Lord, I lie
  2. All as a sea
  3. Susanna fair
  4. If that a sinner's sighs
  5. Care for thy soul
  6. Lullaby, my sweet little baby
  7. Why do I use my paper, ink, and pen?
    • The funeral songs of Sir Philip Sydney:
  1. Come to me, grief, for ever
  2. O that most rare breast
    • Two madrigals from Yonge's Musica Transalpina:
  1. The fair young virgin
  2. But so soon

Volume 15 (1920): William Byrd: Songs of sundry natures, to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (published in 1589 ; reprinted in 1610)

William Byrd: Songs of sundry natures to 3, 4, 5, and 6 parts

Songs of three parts:

  1. Lord, in thy rage
  2. Right blest are they
  3. Lord, in thy wrath
  4. O God which art most merciful
  5. Lord, hear my prayer
  6. From depth of sin
  7. Attend mine humble prayer
  8. Susanna fair
  9. The nightinggale so pleasant
  10. When younglings first on Cupid
  11. But when by proof they find
  12. Upon a summer's day
  13. Then for a boat his quiver
  14. The greedy hawk

Songs of four parts

  1. Is love a boy?
  2. Boy, pity me
  3. Wounded I am
  4. Yet of us twain
  5. From Citheron the warlike boy
  6. There careless thoughts are freed
  7. If love be just
  8. O Lord my God
  9. While that the sun
  10. From virgin pure this day did spring / words by Francis Kindlemarsh
  11. Rejoice, rejoice
  12. An earthly tree a heavenly fruit
  13. Cast off all doubtful care

Songs of five parts

  1. Weeping full sore
  2. Penelope that longed
  3. Compel the hawk to sit / words by Thomas Churchyard
  4. See those sweet eyes
  5. Love would discharge
  6. When I was otherwise
  7. When first by force
  8. I thought that love had been a boy
  9. O dear life, when may it be? / words by Sir Philip Sidney
  10. Of gold all burnished
  11. Her breath is more sweet

Songs of six parts

  1. Behold how good a thing
  2. And as the pleasant morning dew
  3. Who made thee Hob forsake the plough?
  4. And think ye nymphs?
  5. Love is a fit of pleasure
  6. If in thine heart
  7. Unto the hills mine eyes I lift
  8. Christ rising again
  9. Christ is risen again

Volume 16 (1920): William Byrd: Psalms, songs, and sonnets : some solemn, others joyful : to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (published in 1611) ; A madrigal ... (included by Thomas Watson in "First set of Italian madrigals Englished" published in 1590)

William Byrd: Psalms songs and sonnets, some solemn others joyful to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts; This sweet and merry month

Songs of three parts

  1. The eagle's force / words by Thomas Churchyard
  2. Of flattering speech
  3. In winter cold
  4. Whereat an ant
  5. Who looks may leap
  6. Sing ye to our Lord
  7. I have been young
  8. In crystal towers

Songs of four parts

  1. This sweet and merry month / words attributed to Thomas Watson
  2. Let not the sluggish sleep
  3. A feigned friend
  4. Awake, mine eyes
  5. Come, jolly swains
  6. What is life?
  7. Fantazia (for strings)
  8. Come let us rejoice

Songs of five parts

  1. Retire, my soul
  2. Arise, Lord, into thy rest
  3. Come, woeful Orpheus
  4. Sing we merrily unto God
  5. Blow up the trumpet
  6. Crowned with flowers
  7. Wedded to will is witless
  8. Make ye joy to God

Songs of six parts

  1. Have mercy upon me, O God
  2. Fantazia (for strings)
  3. This day Christ was born
  4. O God that guides the cheerful sun
  5. Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles
  6. Turn our captivity, O Lord
  7. Ah silly soul
  8. How vain the tolls

A madrigal for six voices included in Thomas Watson's collection published in 1590:

  1. This sweet and merry month

Volume 17 (1922): Henry Lichfild: First set of madrigals of five parts (published in 1613)

Henry Lichfild: First set of madrigals of five parts
  1. All ye that sleep in pleasure
  2. Shall I seek to ease my grief?
  3. The shepherd Claius seeing
  4. First with looks he lived
  5. Ay me, that life should yet remain
  6. O my grief, were it disclosed
  7. I always loved to call my lady Rose
  8. O come shepherds all together
  9. Sweet Daphne, stay thy flying
  10. Alas my Daphne, stay
  11. Ay me, when to the air
  12. Arise, sweet heart
  13. When first I saw those cruel eyes
  14. If this be love, to scorn
  15. Cruel, let my heart be blessed
  16. A seely Sylvan
  17. The Sylvan justly suffered
  18. Injurious hours!
  19. Whilst that my lovely Daphne
  20. My heart oppressed.

Volume 18 (1922): Thomas Tomkins: Songs of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (published in 1622) : A madrigal (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601)

Thomas Tomkins: Songs of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts; The faun and satyrs tripping

Songs of three parts.

  1. Our hasty life away doth post
  2. No more I will thy love
  3. Sure there is no god of love
  4. Fond men, that do so highly prize
  5. How great delight
  6. Love, cease tormenting

Songs of four parts.

  1. O let me live for true love
  2. O let me die for true love
  3. Oyez! Has any found a lad? Weep no more, thou sorry boy
  4. Yet again, as soon revived
  5. Was ever wretch tormented?

Songs of five parts. To the shady woods

  1. Too much I once lamented
  2. Come, shepherds, sing with me
  3. Cloris, whenas I woo
  4. See, see the shepherds' queen
  5. Phyllis, now cease to move me
  6. When David heard
  7. Phyllis, yet see him dying
  8. Fusca, in thy starry eyes
  9. Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers –

Songs of six parts. When I observe

  1. Music divine
  2. Oft did I marle
  3. Woe is me
  4. It is my well-beloved's voice
  5. Turn unto the Lord
  6. A madrigal for five voices from "Triumphs of Oriana:" The fauns and satyrs tripping.#

Volume 19 (1922): John Ward: Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (published in 1613)

John Ward: Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts

Songs of three voices.

  1. My true love hath my heart : (the first part), words by Sir Philip Sidney
  2. His heart his wound received : (the second part), words by Sir Philip Sidney
  3. O say, dear life
  4. In health and ease am I, words by Francis Davison
  5. Go, wailing accents, words by Francis Davison
  6. Fly not so fast

Songs of four voices.

  1. A satyr once did run away, words by Sir Philip Sidney
  2. O my thoughts, surcease, words by Sir Philip Sidney
  3. Sweet pity, wake
  4. Love is a dainty
  5. Free from love's bonds
  6. How long shall I?

Songs of five voices.

  1. Sweet Philomel : (the first part)
  2. Ye sylvan nymphs : (the second part)
  3. Flora, fair nymph
  4. Phillis, the bright
  5. Hope of my heart
  6. Upon a bank of roses, words by Michael Drayton

Songs of six voices.

  1. Retire, my troubled soul
  2. Oft have I tendered
  3. Out from the vale
  4. O divine love, words by Michael Drayton
  5. If the deep sighs : (the first part), words by Michael Drayton
  6. There's not a grove : (the second part), words by Michael Drayton
  7. Die not, fond man
  8. I have entreated, words by Walter Davison
  9. Come, sable night.
  10. Weep forth your tears.


Volume 20 (1922): Giles Farnaby: Canzonets to four voices (published in 1598)

Giles Farnaby: Canzonets to four voices
  1. Among the daffadillies
  2. Ay me, poor heart
  3. Blind love was shooting
  4. Carters, now cast down
  5. Construe my meaning
  6. Daphne on the rainbow
  7. Lady, the silly flea
  8. Lady, when I behold your passions
  9. Love shooting among many
  10. Love shooting at another
  11. My lady's coloured cheeks
  12. Pearce did dance with Petronella
  13. Pearce did love fair Petronel
  14. Phillida bewailed
  15. Simkin said that Sis was fair
  16. Some time she would
  17. Susanna fair
  18. The curtain drawn
  19. The wavering planet
  20. Thrice blessed be the giver
  21. Witness, ye heavens (for eight voices)


Volume 21 (1922): Thomas Bateson: First set of madrigals (published in 1604)

Thomas Bateson: First set of madrigals
  1. When Oriana walked

Songs to three voices

  1. Beauty is a lovely sweet
  2. Love would discharge
  3. The nightingale so soon as April (text byu Sir Philip Sidney)
  4. Ay me, my mistress scorns
  5. Come, follow me, fair nymphs
  6. Your shining eyes

Songs to four voices

  1. Whither so fast? Dame Venus to Paphos go
  2. Down from above falls Jove
  3. Adieu, sweet love
  4. If love be blind
  5. Phyllis, farewell

Songs to five voices

  1. Those sweet delightful lilies
  2. And must I needs depart? Sweet Gemma
  3. Yet stay alway
  4. Strange were the life
  5. Alas, where is my love? O fly not, love
  6. Who prostrate lies
  7. Sister, awake
  8. Hark, hear you not? Oriana's farewell

Songs to six voices

  1. Dear, if you wish my dying
  2. Fair Hebe when dame Flora
  3. Phyllis, farewell
  4. Thyrsis on his fair Phyllis' breast
  5. Merrily my love and I
  6. Music some think no music is


Volume 22 (1922): Thomas Bateson: Second set of madrigals (published in 1618)

Thomas Bateson: First set of madrigals

Songs of three parts

  1. Love is the fire
  2. My mistress after service due
  3. One woman scarce of twenty
  4. If I seek to enjoy
  5. Pleasure is a wanton thing
  6. Sweet, those trammels of your hair

Songs of four parts

  1. Love not, poor bloom
  2. The nightingale in silent night
  3. O what is she? : the first part
  4. See forth her eyes : the second part
  5. When to the gloomy woods
  6. If floods of tears

Songs of five parts

  1. Have I found her?
  2. Down the hills Corinna trips
  3. Camilla fair tripped o'er the plain
  4. Sadness, sit down
  5. Life of my life
  6. I heard a noise
  7. With bitter sighs
  8. Why do I, dying, live?
  9. In depth of grief
  10. All the day I waste : the first part
  11. Why dost thou fly? : the second part
  12. Come, Sorrow, help me to lament -- Songs of six parts. Cupid in a bed of roses
  13. Cytherea smiling said
  14. Her hair the net of golden wire
  15. Fond love is blind
  16. Ah, Cupid, grant
  17. She with a cruel frown.


==Volume 23 (1922): John Bennet: Madrigals to four voices (published in 1599) ; A madrigal by John Bennet (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601) ; Two songs of four parts by John Bennet (included by Thomas Ravenscroft in his "Brief discourse, " published in 1614)

John Bennet: Madrigals to four voices (published in 1599); A madrigal by John Bennet (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601); Two songs of four parts by John Bennet (included by Thomas Ravenscroft in his "Brief discourse, " published in 1614)

I wander up and down

  1. Weep, silly soul disdained
  2. So gracious is thy sweet self
  3. Let go! why do you stay me
  4. Come, shepherds, follow me
  5. I languish to complain me
  6. Sing out, ye nymphs
  7. Thrysis, sleepest thou?--Ye restless thoughts
  8. Whenas I glance
  9. Cruel, unkind
  10. O sleep, fond fancy
  11. Weep, O mine eyes
  12. Since neither tunes of joy
  13. O grief, where shall poor grief?
  14. O sweet grief
  15. Rest now Amphion
  16. A madrigal from the "Triumphs of Oriana": All creatures now are merry-minded

Two songs of four parts from Ravenscroft's "Brief discourse."

  1. Lure, falconers, lure!
  2. Round about in a fair ring.


Volume 24 (1922): George Kirbye: Madrigals to 4, 5, and 6 voices (published in 1597) ; A madrigal ... (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601)

George Kirbye: Madrigals to 4, 5, and 6 voices (published in 1597) ; A madrigal (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601)

Songs to 4 voices

  1. Lo, here my heart I leave
  2. Alas, what hope of speeding?
  3. What can I do, my dearest?
  4. Woe am I, my heart dies
  5. Farewell, my love
  6. Sleep now, my muse

Songs to 5 voices.

  1. Ah, sweet, alas, when first I saw
  2. Mourn now, my soul
  3. Sound out, my voice
  4. She that my plaints
  5. What, shall I part thus?
  6. Sorrow consumes me
  7. O heavens, what shall I do?
  8. Why should I love?
  9. Sweet love, O cease thy flying
  10. That muse which sung
  11. See what a maze of error
  12. If pity reign with beauty

Songs to 6 voices.

  1. Ah, cruel, hateful fortune
  2. I love, alas, yet am I not beloved
  3. Must I part, O my jewel?
  4. Up, then, Melpomene / words by Sir Philip Sidney
  5. Why wail we thus? / words by Sir Philip Sidney
  6. Sleep, now, my muse -- A madrigal from the "Triumphs of Oriana": With angel's face and brightness
Alternative words to the same madrigal: Bright Phœbus greets most clearly

Volume 25 (1923): Francis Pilkington: First set of madrigals and pastorals of 3, 4, and 5 parts (published in 1614)

Francis Pilkington: First set of madrigals and pastorals of 3, 4, and 5 parts (published in 1614)

Of three voices

  1. See where my love
  2. I follow, lo, the footing
  3. Pour forth, mine eyes
  4. Stay, nymph, O stay
  5. Dorus, a silly shepherd
  6. Is this thy doom?

Of four voices

  1. Amyntas, with his Phyllis fair
  2. Here rest, my thoughts
  3. Why should I grieve?
  4. The messenger of the delightful spring
  5. Have I found her?
  6. What though her frowns?
  7. Love is a secret feeding fire
  8. Why do I fret?
  9. All in a cave

Of five voices

  1. Sing we, dance we
  2. Under the top of Helicons
  3. Sweet Phillida, my flocks
  4. My heart is dead
  5. No, no, no, it will not be
  6. When Oriana walked
  7. Now I see thou floutest me.

Volume 26 (1923): Francis Pilkington: Second set of madrigals and pastorals of 3, 4, 5, and 6 parts : (published in 1624)

Francis Pilkington: Second set of madrigals and pastorals of 3, 4, 5, and 6 parts : (published in 1624)

Of three voices: Sovereign of my delight

  1. Yond hill-tops Phoebus kissed
  2. Wake, sleepy Thyrsis
  3. Stay, heart, run not so fast
  4. Ye bubbling springs
  5. Your fond preferments

Of four voices.

  1. Menalcas in an evening
  2. Coy Daphne fled
  3. Chaste Daphne fled
  4. If she neglect me
  5. Palaemon and his Sylvia
  6. You gentle nymphs , words by George Wither

Of five voices.

  1. Chaste Syrinx fled
  2. Come shepherds' weeds, words by Sir Philip Sidney
  3. Crowned with flowers
  4. Weep, sad Urania
  5. O gracious God
  6. Go, you skipping kids and fawns
  7. Care for thy soul
  8. Drown not with tears

Of six voices.

  1. Dear shepherdess
  2. Cruel Pabrilla
  3. O softly-singing lute
  4. O praise the Lord.

Volume 27 (1923): Richard Carlton: Madrigals to five voices (published in 1601) / Richard Carlton ; a madrigal for five voices by Richard Carlton (included by Thomas Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana, published in 1601)

Richard Carlton: Madrigals to five voices (published in 1601); a madrigal for five voices by Richard Carlton (included by Thomas Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana, published in 1601)
  1. The love of change
  2. Content thyself with thy estate
  3. The self-same things
  4. With her sweet locks
  5. Like as the gentle heart
  6. Nought under heaven, words by Edmund Spenser
  7. So whilom learned, words by Edmund Spenser
  8. Sound saddest notes
  9. Let every sharp
  10. If women can be courteous
  11. Nought is on earth, words by Edmund Spenser
  12. Ye gentle ladies, words by Edmund Spenser
  13. The witless boy
  14. Who seeks to captivate
  15. Who vows devotion
  16. The heathen gods for love
  17. O vain desire
  18. Even as the flowers do wither
  19. Madrigal from "The triumphs of Oriana" : Calm was the air.


Volume 28 (1923): Henry Youll: Canzonets to three voices : published in 1608

Henry Youll: Canzonets to three voices : published in 1608
  1. Each day of thine
  2. Come, love, let's walk
  3. In yonder dale
  4. See where this nymph
  5. Pipe shepherds, pipe
  6. Only joy, now here you are
  7. Of sweet and dainty flowers
  8. Slow, slow, fresh font
  9. In pleasant Summer's morning
  10. Once I thought to die for love
  11. Awake, sweet love
  12. Pity me, mine own sweet jewel
  13. Cease, restless thoughts
  14. Sweet Phyllis, stay
  15. The shepherds daughters
  16. But behold where they return
  17. Say shepherd, say
  18. But through poor sheep
  19. In the merry month of May
  20. Come, merry lads, let us away
  21. Whiles joyful springtime lasteth
  22. Early before the day doth spring
  23. Where are now those jolly swains?
  24. Now the country lasses hie them.

Volume 29 (1923): Michael East: First set of madrigals to 3. 4. and 5. parts : (published in 1604)

Michael East: First set of madrigals to 3. 4. and 5. parts (published in 1604)

Songs of 3 parts.

  1. O come again, my lovely jewel
  2. In the merry month of May (words by Nicholas Breton)
  3. Corydon would kiss her then (words by Nicholas Breton)
  4. Young Cupid hath proclaimed
  5. To bed, to bed, she calls
  6. O do not run away
  7. In an evening late
  8. Alas, must I run away?--

Songs of 4 parts.

  1. O stay, fair cruel
  2. My hope a counsel with my love
  3. Pity, dear love
  4. Mopsie, leave off to love
  5. Sweet love, I err
  6. In vain my tongue
  7. When on my dear I do demand
  8. Joy of my life.

Songs of 5 parts.

  1. All ye that joy in wailing
  2. My prime of youth (words by Chideock Tichborne)
  3. The spring is past (words by Chideock Tichborne)
  4. Fair is my love
  5. Sly thief, if so you will believe
  6. What thing more cruel? Ye restless cares / (words by Robert Greene)
  7. You mournful gods.

Volume 30 (1923): Michael East: Madrigals to 3, 4, and 5 parts : (published in 1606); a madrigal by Michael East (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601).

Michael East: Madrigals to 3, 4, and 5 parts : (published in 1606); a madrigal by Michael East (included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601)

Songs of 3 voices.

  1. I do not love my Phyllis
  2. See Amaryllis shamed
  3. Why smilest thou, sweet jewel
  4. How merrily we live
  5. Follow me, sweet love
  6. Round about I follow thee.

Songs of 4 voices.

  1. In dolorous complaining
  2. Since tears would not obtain
  3. Why runs away my love
  4. Why do you seek by flight
  5. Farwell, false love; So much to give
  6. Sound out, my voice
  7. She that my plaints.

Songs of 5 voices.

  1. Why smilest thou, sweet jewel?
  2. Dear, why do you joy?
  3. Now Cloris laughs
  4. Forsaken Thyrsis, sighing, sings
  5. I fall and then I rise again
  6. What doth my pretty darling!
  7. Hence stars, too dim of light
  8. O metaphysical tobacco.
  9. Hence stars, too dim of light - from The Triumphs of Oriana

Volume 31 (1923): MIchael East: Madrigals contained in The third set of books : published in 1610. Madrigals contained in The fourth set of books, published in 1619

Michael East: Madrigals contained in The third set of books, published in 1610; Madrigals contained in The fourth set of books, published in 1619

3rd set.

  1. Come life, come death
  2. Poor is the life
  3. Dainty white pearl
  4. Say, dear, when will your frowning?
  5. Lo, here I leave my heart
  6. Life, tell me
  7. Now must I part.


4th set. Of 4 parts.

  1. Thyrsis, sleepest thou?
  2. I did woo her
  3. Why are our summer sports?
  4. Dear love, be not unkind
  5. Whenas I glance
  6. Your shining eyes
  7. When I lament
  8. Farewell, sweet woods

Of 5 parts:

  1. To hear men sing
  2. I heard three virgins
  3. What heart such doubled force

Of 6 parts.

  1. Quick, quick, away, despatch!
  2. No haste, but good
  3. Fly away, Care
  4. Weep not, dear love
  5. Your shining eyes.

Volume 32 (1923): The triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices composed by divers several authors, published by Thomas Morley in 1601

The triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices composed by divers several authors, published by Thomas Morley in 1601
  1. Hence Stars by Michael East
  2. With Angel's Face by Daniel Norcombe
  3. Lightly she whipped o'er the dales by John Mundy
  4. Long live fair Oriana by Ellis Gibbons
  5. All Creatures now are Merry‐minded by John Bennet
  6. Fair Oriana, beauty's Queen by John Hilton
  7. The Nymphs and Shepherds danced by George Marson
  8. Calm was the Air by Richard Carlton
  9. Thus Bonnyboots by John Holmes
  10. Sing shepherds all by Richard Nicholson
  11. The Fauns and Satyrs by Thomas Tomkins
  12. Come gentle Swains by Michael Cavendish
  13. With Wreaths of Rose and Laurel by William Cobbold
  14. Arise, awake by Thomas Morley
  15. Fair Nymphs by John Farmer
  16. The Lady Oriana by John Wilbye
  17. Hark, did ye ever Hear so Sweet a Singing? by Thomas Hunt
  18. As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending by Thomas Weelkes
  19. Fair Orian by John Milton
  20. Round about her Chariot by Ellis Gibbons
  21. With Angel's Face by George Kirbye
  22. Fair Oriana by Robert Jones
  23. Fair Cytherea by John Lisley
  24. Hard by a Crystal Fountain by Thomas Morley
  25. Come blessed Bird by Edward Johnson

Volume 33 (1923): Richard Alison: An hour's recreation in music (published in 1606)

Richard Alison: An hour's recreation in music (published in 1606)

Songs of four voices.

  1. The man upright of life : the first verse / words by Thomas Campion
  2. He only can behold : the second verse / words by Thomas Campion
  3. O heavy heart : the first verse
  4. In hope a king : the second verse
  5. Though wit bids will : the third verse
  6. But yet it seems : the fourth verse
  7. I can no more but hope : the fifth verse
  8. Who loves this life
  9. My prime of youth : the first verse / words by Chideock Tichborne
  10. The spring is past : the second verse / words by Chideock Tichborne.

Songs of five voices.

  1. Rest with yourselves : the first verse
  2. For love is frail : the second verse
  3. Shall I abide this jesting? : the first verse
  4. Can I abide this prancing? : the second verse
  5. The study rock : the first verse
  6. The stately stag : the second verse
  7. What if a day : the first verse / words by Thomas Campion
  8. Earth's but a point : the second verse / words by Thomas Campion
  9. There is a garden in her face : the first verse / words by Thomas Campion
  10. Those cherries fairly do enclose : the second verse / words by Thomas Campion
  11. Her eyes like angels : the third verse / words by Thomas Campion
  12. Behold now praise the Lord
  13. O Lord bow down thine ear
  14. The sacred choir of angels.

Volume 34 (1924) Thomas Vautor: Songs of divers airs and natures (published in 1619)

Thomas Vautor: Songs of divers airs and natures (published in 1619)

Songs of five voices

  1. Come forth, sweet nymph
  2. Sing on, sister, and well met
  3. Ah, sweet, whose beauty
  4. Mother I will have a husband
  5. Fairest are the words
  6. Cruel madam
  7. Never did any more delight
  8. Lock up, fair lids / (words by Sir Philip Sidney)
  9. And yet, O dream (words by Sir Philip Sidney)
  10. O merry world
  11. Sweet thief
  12. Sweet Suffolk owl
  13. Thou art not fair / (words by Thomas Campion)
  14. Yet love me not / (words by Thomas Campion)
  15. Mira cano, sol occubuit
  16. Weep, weep, mine eyes –

[Songs of six voices]

  1. Blush, my rude present
  2. Dainty sweet bird
  3. Unkind, is this the need?
  4. Melpomene, bewail
  5. Whilst fatal sisters
  6. Shepherds and nymphs.

Volume 35 (1924): Robert Jones: First set of madrigals of 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. parts (published in 1607); A madrigal included by Morley in his "Triumphs of Oriana" published in 1601; John Mundy: Madrigals included by him in his Songs and psalms composed into 3.4. and 5. parts (published in 1594); A madrigal included by Morley in his "Triumphs of Oriana" published in 1601.

Robert Jones: First set of madrigals of 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. parts (published in 1607); madrigal by Robert Jones included by Morley in his "Triumphs of Oriana" published in 1601;
John Mundy: Madrigals included by him in his Songs and psalms composed into 3.4. and 5. parts (published in 1594) ; A madrigal by John Mundy included by Morley in his "Triumphs of Oriana" published in 1601

Songs for three voices.

  • Thine eyes so bright
  • She only is the pride*
  • When I behold her eyes : the first part
  • But let her look in mine : the second part
  • Love, if a god thou art
  • O, I do love

Songs for four voices.

  • Sing, merry birds
  • I come, sweet birds
  • Cock-a-doodle-doo
  • Shrill-sounding bird : the first part

Songs for five voices.

  • Come, doleful owl
  • Sweet, when thou singest : the first part

Songs for six voices.

  • Your presence breeds : the first part

Songs for seven voices.

  • Are lovers full of fire? : the first part

Songs for eight voices.

  • The more I burn : the second part

A madrigal from the Triumphs of Oriana. Fair Oriana seeming to wink / Robert Jones.

Songs of three parts.

  • Of all the birds
  • As I went walking
  • Turn about and see me

Songs of four parts. My prime of youth

  • In deep distress
  • The longer that I live
  • Heigh ho! 'chill go to plough

Songs of five parts.

  • Were I a king
  • In midst of woods : the first part
  • The black-bird made : the second part
  • Penelope that longed
  • Who lives a life

A madrigal from the Triumphs of Oriana

  • Lightly she whipped o'er the dales / John Mundy


Volume 36 (1924): Michael Cavendish: Madrigals to five voices : (published in 1598). A madrigal included by Morley in his Triumphs of Oriana, published in 1601
Thomas Greaves: Madrigals for five voices (published in 1598)
William Holborne: Airs to three voices (published in 1597)

Michael Cavendish: Madrigals to five voices (published in 1598); . A madrigal included by Morley in his Triumphs of Oriana, published in 1601;
Thomas Greaves: Madrigals for five voices (published in 1598)
William Holborne: Airs to three voices (published in 1597)

Michael Cavendish. Madrigals

  1. In flower of April springing
  2. Zephyrus brings time
  3. Much delighted
  4. Much delighted
  5. Come, gentle swains
  6. To former joy
  7. Faustina hath the fairer face
  8. Every bush new springing
  9. Wandering in this place
  10. Come gentle swains — from the Triumphs of Oriana

Thomas Greaves. Madrigals

  1. England, receive the rightful king
  2. Sweet nymphs, that trip along
  3. Long have tthe shepherds
  4. Lady, the melting crystal
  5. O that a drop
  6. Come away, sweet love
William Holborne: Canzonets
  1. Change then, for lo she changeth
  2. Since Bonny-boots was dead
  3. Here rest, my thoughts
  4. Sweet, I grant
  5. Gush forth, my tears
  6. Sit still and stir not
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