General information
Title: The Oxford Book of English Madrigals
Editors / Compilers: Philip Ledger
Publisher: Oxford University Press , Oxford, England (webpage for purchase )
Price: £15.95 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-19-343664-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-343664-0
Voicing of works: SATB and divisi thereupon
Publication date and place: 1978 9 November by Oxford University Press in Oxford, England.
Description: This book presents 60 of the very best madrigals for SATB, chosen from the many hundreds of possible candidates. The major composers of the genre are each represented by several madrigals and the lesser figures by one or more.
Contents
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Title
Composer
1
All creatures now
John Bennett
2
Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
John Wilbye
3
Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers
Thomas Tomkins
4
Ah, dear heart
Orlando Gibbons
5
April is in my mistress' face
Thomas Morley
6
As Vesta was
Thomas Weelkes
7
Come away, sweet love
Thomas Greaves
8
Come, gentle swains
Michael Cavendish
9
Come, sable night
John Ward
10
Consture my meaning
Giles Farnaby
11
Come, sirrah Jack, ho!
Thomas Weelkes
12
Dainty fine bird
Orlando Gibbons
13
Draw on, sweet Night
John Wilbye
14
Fair nymphs, I heard one telling
John Farmer
15
Flora gave me fairest flowers
John Wilbye
16
Fair Phyllis I saw
John Farmer
17
Fyer, fyer!
Thomas Morley
18
Hard by a crystal fountain
Thomas Morley
19
Hark, all ye lovely saints
Thomas Weelkes
20
Lady, when I behold
John Wilbye
21
I love, alas, I love thee
Thomas Morley
22
Leave, alas, this tormenting
Thomas Morley
23
Lullaby, my sweet little baby
William Byrd
24
Mother, I will have a husband
Thomas Vautor
25
Music divine
Thomas Tomkins
26
My bonny lass she smileth
Thomas Morley
27
Now is the month of maying
Thomas Morley
28
O Care, thou wilt despatch me
Thomas Weelkes
29
Hence, Care, thou art too cruel
Thomas Weelkes
30
Out from the vale
John Ward
31
O what shall I do?
John Wilbye
32
O yes! has any found a lad?
Thomas Tomkins
33
O that the learned poets
Orlando Gibbons
34
Poor is the life
Michael East
35
Quick, quick, away, dispatch!
Michael East
36
No haste but good
Michael East
37
See, see the shepherds' queen
Thomas Tomkins
38
Since Robin Hood
Thomas Weelkes
39
See what a maze of error
George Kirbye
40
Sing we and chant it
Thomas Morley
41
Strike it up, Tabor
Thomas Weelkes
42
Sing we at pleasure
Thomas Weelkes
43
Sleep, fleshly birth
Robert Ramsey
44
Sweet honey-sucking bees
John Wilbye
45
Yet, sweet, take heed
John Wilbye
46
Sweet suffolk owl
Thomas Vautor
47
The silver swan
Orlando Gibbons
48
This sweet and merry month of May
William Byrd
49
Though Amaryllis dance
William Byrd
50
Though Philomela lost her love
Thomas Morley
51
Those sweet delightful lilies
Thomas Bateson
52
Thule, the period of cosmography
Thomas Weelkes
53
The Andalusian merchant
Thomas Weelkes
54
Thus sings my dearest jewel
Thomas Weelkes
55
Too much I once lamented
Thomas Tomkins
56
Trust not too much, fair Youth
Orlando Gibbons
57
Weep, O mine eyes
John Bennet
58
Weep, weep, mine eyes
John Wilbye
59
What is our life?
Orlando Gibbons
60
Whither away so fast?
Thomas Morley