| Work Title
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The First Sett of Italian Madrigals Englished
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| Alternative. Title
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The first sett, Of Italian Madrigals Englished, not to the sense of the originall dittie, but after the affection of the Noate. By Thomas Watson Gentleman. There are also heere inserted two excellent Madrigalls of Master VVilliam Byrds, composed after the Italian vaine, at the request of the sayd Thomas Watson
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| Composer
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Various
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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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28 madrigals
- When first my heedles eyes beheld with pleasure / Luca Marenzio
- O merry world when every lover with his mate / Luca Marenzio
- Farewell cruell & unkind / Luca Marenzio
- Zephyrus breathing, now calls nymfs from out their bowres / Luca Marenzio
- Faire shepherds Queene, let us hand in hand inchained / Luca Marenzio
- Every singing bird yt in ye wood rejoyces / Luca Marenzio
- Alas, what a wretched life is this? / Luca Marenzio
- This sweet & merry month of May / William Byrd
- Though faint & wasted / Luca Marenzio
- Since my heedlesse eies began to be ranging / Luca Marenzio
- When all alone my bony love / Girolamo Conversi
- When I beheld the faire face of Phyllis sleeping / Luca Marenzio
- Alas, where is my love / Luca Marenzio
- Sweet hart arise that we may take our pleasure / Luca Marenzio
- But if the countrie Gods seeke to surround thee / Luca Marenzio
- When fro[m] my selfe sweet Cupid first bereft me / Luca Marenzio
- Sweet singing Amarillis / Luca Marenzio
- Fancy retyre thee / Luca Marenzio
- How long with vaine complayning / Luca Marenzio
- All yee that joy in wayling / Giovanni Maria Nanino
- O heare me heave[n]ly powrs all at one calling / Luca Marenzio
- In chaynes of hope and feare / Luca Marenzio
- When Meliboeus soul flying he[n]ce departed / Luca Marenzio
- Now twinkling starres do smile / (the second part) Luca Marenzio
- Unkind o stay thy flying / Luca Marenzio
- Love hath proclamed warre by Trumpet sounded / Alessandro Striggio
- The fates alas too cruell / Luca Marenzio
- This sweet and merry month of May / William Byrd
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| First Publication.
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1590
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| Librettist
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Thomas Watson (1555–1592)
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| Language
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English
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| Dedication
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Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
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| Piece Style
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Renaissance
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| Instrumentation
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4-6 voices
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