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Anonymous, | Bartlet(t), John | Caccini, Giulio | Campion, Thomas | d'India, Sigismondo | Dowland, John | Johnson, Robert | Morley, Thomas | Purcell, Henry | Rossetter, Phillip | Saracini, Claudio | Please scroll down to view...

Anonymous

Song
  • Hark, hark the lark
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    With a text from the Tempest, a fiery and exciting lute song
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Bartlet(t), John (fl.1606-10)

Song
  • Surcharged with Discontent
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Count the number of birds in this enormous consort song.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Caccini, Giulio (1550 - 1618)

Song
  • Dolcissimo sospiro
    Forces: soprano & continuo
    Source: BL MS Eg.2971
    Written in 1602 to poetry by Rinuccini, this is a beautiful song about the sweet sighs of love.
    Range d - e'
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Campion, Thomas (b London, 12 Feb 1567; d London, 1 March 1620)

Song
  • It Fell On A Summer's Day
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    A bawdy tale of Jamie and Bessie and what they get up to in the afternoon.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Jack and Joan
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Narrative song extolling the virtues of the simple folk over the indulgence of courtly life.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Miserere My Maker
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Beautiful lute song in three verses
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Never weather-beaten sail
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Beautiful votive song using the analogy of the ship bending its sails to shore being like the soul returning to God.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Text by Shakespeare, from the Tempest
    Editor: James Sanderson
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d'India, Sigismondo (b Palermo, c1582; d ?Modena, before 19 April 1629)

Song
  • (L4M - 06) Che veggio ohime - Orfeo
    Forces: tenor & continuo
    A tortured lament for Orfeo from d'India's Le Quarte Musiche of 1621. Very spare and dramatic in its construction, range d - g'
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • (L5M - 01) Io che del ciel - Virtù
    Forces: soprano & continuo
    In four sections, all based on the same continuo line this work forms a kind of prologue to the Quinte Musiche due to its expositional style, high-flown language and the fact that is being sung by Virtue. Very florid writing as you can hear in the MIDI preview, it is also very beautiful with a rather unexpected ending. Range: d' - a''
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • (L5M - 02) Lamento di Didone
    Forces: mezzo-soprano & continuo
    Exquisite lament from d'India's Quinte Musiche of 1623 in which Dido laments the loss of Aeneas. Wonderful use of harmony and chromaticism.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • (L5M - 05) - Lamento di Giasone sopra il Figlioli morti da Medea
    Forces: tenor & continuo
    The only work for tenor voice in the Quinte Musiche - extended, many key changes and a great deal of suffering.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • (L5M - 11) Lamento di Olimpia
    Forces: mezzo-soprano & continuo
    The third lament from d'India's Quinte Musiche of 1623. Dramatic and extremely moving monodic piece with intensely chromatic movement.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • (L5M - 13) Questo dardo quest'arco - Diana
    Forces: soprano & continuo
    Extremely virtuosic, this solo song/madrigal from Le Quinte Musiche (1623) has some incredibly ornate passage work throughout. As you may have guessed from the incipit, the work is about Diana - Goddess of the Hunt...
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • LM à 2 - Cosi per ben amar
    Forces: 2 sopranos & continuo
    Duet from the 1615 collection of 'Musiche a due voci' - one of the four 'Aria sopra Zefiro' using the same bass line.
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  • LM à 2 - Giamai l'alma respira
    Forces: 2 sopranos & continuo
    Duet from the 1615 collection of 'Musiche a due voci' - one of the four 'Aria sopra Zefiro' using the same bass line.
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  • LM à 2 - Langue al vostro languir
    Forces: 2 tenors & continuo
    A virtuosic madrigal for two tenors from the 1615 'Le Musiche a due voci'. Wide range both vocally and dramatically.
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  • LM à 2 - Nudrisco il mesto cor
    Forces: 2 sopranos & continuo
    Duet from the 1615 collection of 'Musiche a due voci' - one of the four 'Aria sopra Zefiro' using the same bass line.
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  • LM à 2 - Porto celato il mio nobil pensiero
    Forces: 2 sopranos & continuo
    Simple duet from the 1615 collection of 'Musiche a due voci' with much imitation and harmonic interest. The first of the four 'Aria sopra Zefiro' using the same bass line.
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Dowland, John (1563 - 1626)

Song
  • Come again: Sweet love doth now invite
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Dowland's famous song
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Come heavy Sleep
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    A beautiful song for evening
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • His Golden Locks
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    A song performed at the retirement of the Queen's Champion
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Lady, if you so spite me
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Wonderfully dramatic song concerning love's rejection and the need to woo.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Say Love if Ever Thou Didst Find
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    A song dedicated to the virtues of Queen Elizabeth I
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Song: Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Complex and very interesting lute song
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Song: Come away, come sweet love
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Well-known song in three verses
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Song: Goe Crystall Teares
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Dowland's beatiful song
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Sweet Stay Awhile
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    The lover entreats his lady to return to bed.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Johnson, Robert

Song
  • Full Fathom Five
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Text from 'The Tempest' - a simple and charming song
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • In Sherwood Lived Stout Robin Hood
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    A wonderful narrative song telling of Love's triumph over the noble knave.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Morley, Thomas (b Norwich, 1557 or 1558; d London, early Oct 1602)

Song
  • It was a lover and his lass
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    Morley's famous madrigal as a lute song
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Purcell, Henry (b London, Sept 1659; d Westminster, London, 21 Nov 1695)

Song
  • 'Tis Nature's Voice
    Forces: voice & continuo
    From Orpheus Britannicus a complex and virtuosic 'Single Song'
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Ah! how sweet it is to love
    Forces: voice & continuo
    A Song in Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr - Orpheus Britannicus I,ii
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Celia has a thousand charms
    Forces: voice & continuo
    A song in the Rival Sisters - Orpheus Britannicus I,i
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • If Musick be the Food of Love
    Forces: voice & continuo
    The first, and more elaborate, version of the famous song by Purcell- Orpheus Britannicus I,iv
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Song: Fairest Isle
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Purcell's charming song
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Song: Now That The Sun Hath Veiled His Light
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Purcell's beautiful 'Evening Hymn'
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Whilst I with Grief did on you look
    Forces: voice & continuo
    A Song on Mrs. Bracegirdle's Singing (I Burn &c) in the second part of Don Quixote - Orpheus Britannicus I,iii
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Rossetter, Phillip (b 1567/8; d London, 5 May 1623)

Song
  • When Laura Smiles
    Forces: voice & lute (arr keyboard)
    A song extolling the charms and virtues of beautiful Laura
    Editor: James Sanderson
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Saracini, Claudio (b Siena, July 1586; d Mirandola, Sept 1630)

Song
  • Le Quinte Musiche - Langue al vostro languir
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Lamento style song from Saracini's 'Quinte Musiche' of 1624
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Quinte Musiche - Partire oime partire
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Extended madrigal in 'lamento' style from the 'Quinte Musiche' of 1624 with Saracini's customary stretching of the harmonic progression.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seconde Musiche - Care gioie
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Simple strophic song from Le Seconde Musiche (1620)
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seconde Musiche - Crudel tu vuoi partire
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Strophic song from Saracini's 'Seconde Musiche' of 1620 with 12(!) verses
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seconde Musiche - Giunto e pur Lidia il mio
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Extended madrigal from Saracini's 'Seconde Musiche' with wonderful harmonic shifts.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seconde Musiche - Quest'amore quest'arsura
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Strophic song from Saracini's 'Seconde Musiche' of 1620
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seconde Musiche - Tra le pompe di morte
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Dramatic piece in the 'lamento' style with very adventurous harmonic progressions
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seconde Musiche - Udite lagrimosi spirti d'averno
    Forces: voice & continuo
    The first song from Le Seconde Musiche (1620). Dedicated to Monteverdi - Intitolato Al Molto Illustre Sig. Claudio Monteverdi Maestro di Capella della Serenissima Signoria di Venetia in San Marco.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seste Musiche - Non più strali pungenti
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Strophic song with quirky rhythm and melody from Saracini's 'Seste Musiche' of 1624
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seste Musiche - S'io non ti toglio un bacio
    Forces: voice & continuo
    From seemlingly harmless beginnings this song develops a truly wicked harmonic and rhythmic side.
    Editor: James Sanderson
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  • Le Seste Musiche - Tornate o cari baci
    Forces: voice & continuo
    Bright madrigal on the theme of love/death
    Editor: James Sanderson
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