Consort Songs
£106.00
Edited by Philip Brett
First published in 1967, revised 1974
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 22
Weight: 1.26kg
The ‘Cinderella’ of Elizabethan and Jacobean secular music, consort songs for voice and viols survived both the popularity of the imported madrigal and the fashion for the lute air. An indigenous corpus of music, they subsequently influenced the development of the verse anthem.
Any individual work from this volume is available in printed or digital (PDF) format on request (archive@stainer.co.uk).
CONTENTS
| Composer | Title |
|---|---|
| ANONYMOUS | Ah, silly poor Joas |
| ANONYMOUS | Alas, alack my heart is woe |
| ANONYMOUS | Born is the Babe |
| ANONYMOUS | Come, Charon, come |
| ANONYMOUS | Come, Holy Ghost |
| ANONYMOUS | Come tread the paths (Guichardo) |
| ANONYMOUS | Complain with tears |
| ANONYMOUS | Cry of London, The |
| ANONYMOUS | Dark is my delight, The |
| ANONYMOUS | Farewell the bliss |
| ANONYMOUS | Hold, lingel, hold |
| ANONYMOUS | How can the tree |
| ANONYMOUS | In paradise |
| ANONYMOUS | In terrors trapp’d |
| ANONYMOUS | Mistrust misdeems amiss |
| ANONYMOUS | My heart doth pant for sorrow |
| ANONYMOUS | My little sweet darling |
| ANONYMOUS | My mind to me |
| ANONYMOUS | O Death, rock me asleep |
| ANONYMOUS | Of all jolly pastimes |
| ANONYMOUS | O Lord of whom I do depend |
| ANONYMOUS | O Lord, turn not away thy face |
| ANONYMOUS | Saint I serve, The |
| ANONYMOUS | Sweet was the song the Virgin sung |
| ANONYMOUS | This merry pleasant Spring |
| ANONYMOUS | What first did break thee |
| ANONYMOUS | What meat eats the Spaniard? |
| ANONYMOUS | When Daphne from fair Phoebus did fly |
| ANONYMOUS | When May is in his prime |
| ANONYMOUS | Without redress |
| BENNET, John | Eliza, her name gives honour |
| BENNET, John | Venus’ birds |
| COBBOLD, William | Amids my bale |
| COBBOLD, William | For death of her |
| COBBOLD, William | Haughty hearts, The |
| COBBOLD, William | New fashions |
| COBBOLD, William | Ye mortal wights |
| COSYN, John | Except the Lord the house do make |
| COSYN, John | Lord, to thee I make my moan |
| COSYN, John | Now Israel may say |
| COSYN, John | Yield unto God |
| DERING, Richard | City cries, The |
| DERING, Richard | Country cries, The |
| DOWLAND, John | Sorrow, come |
| FARRANT, Richard | Ah, alas, you salt sea gods (Abrodad) |
| FARRANT, Richard | O Jove, from stately throne |
| GIBBONS, Orlando | Cries of London, The |
| GILES, Nathaniel | Cease now, vain thoughts |
| JOHNSON, Edward | Come again |
| JOHNSON, Edward | Eliza is the fairest queen |
| MANDO, Patrick | Like as the day |
| MUNDY, William | Fie, fie, my fate |
| NICHOLSON, Richard | Cuckoo |
| NICHOLSON, Richard | I am not, I, of such belief |
| NICHOLSON, Richard | In a merry May morn |
| NICHOLSON, Richard | Joan, quoth John |
| NICHOLSON, Richard | No more, good herdsman, of thy song |
| NICHOLSON, Richard | Sweet, they say such winter lies in your lips |
| PARSONS, Robert | Enforc’d by love and fear |
| PARSONS, Robert | No grief is like to mine |
| PARSONS, Robert | Pour down, you pow’rs divine |
| PATTRICK, Nathaniel | Climb not too high |
| PATTRICK, Nathaniel | Prepare to die |
| PATTRICK, Nathaniel | Send forth thy sighs |
| STROGERS, Nicholas | A doleful deadly pang |
| STROGERS, Nicholas | Mistrust not truth |
| STROGERS, Nicholas | O heav’nly God |
| TOMKINS, John | O thrice-blessed earthbed |
| WEELKES, Thomas | Cries of London, The |
| WIGTHORPE, William | I am not I of such belief |
| WIGTHORPE, William | Smiths are good fellows |
| WIGTHORPE, William | Were I made juror |
| WILBYE, John | Ne reminiscaris |
