English Songs 1625-1660
£106.00
Edited by Ian Spink
First published in 1971, revised 1977
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (mm): 330 x 254 x 21
Weight: 1.371kg
A collection of songs by English composers of the generation following the lute-song writers, with music of the Stuart court forming an important element. This corpus of work is of interest for its typically English compromise with the new European styles of declamation and recitative.
Any individual work from this volume is available in printed or digital (PDF) format on request (archive@stainer.co.uk).
CONTENTS
| Composer | Title | Range |
|---|---|---|
| ANONYMOUS | Go thy ways since thou wilt go | D – F |
| ANONYMOUS | If, when I die, to hell’s eternal shade (Fowler) | D – F |
| ANONYMOUS | Must your fair inflaming eye | G – G |
| ANONYMOUS | Sing aloud harmonious spheres (Strode) | D – E |
| ANONYMOUS | You meaner beauties of the night (Wotton) | D – E |
| ATKINS, John | I can love for an hour when I’m at leisure | C – E |
| ATKINS, John | This lady ripe and fair and fresh (Davenant: The Just Italian | E – F |
| ATKINS, John | Wert thou yet fairer than thou art | F sharp – E |
| ATKINS, John | When the chill Cherocco blows (Bonham) | E – F |
| BALES, Alfonso | Chloris sigh’d, and sang, and wept (Pembroke) | G – G |
| BLAGROVE, Thomas | What means this strangeness now of late? (Aytoun) | F – F |
| BREWER, Thomas | Mistake me not, I am as cold as hot | D – F |
| BREWER, Thomas | O that mine eyes could melt into a flood | G – G |
| CAESAR, William (alias Smegergill) | Blow gently passion in my fair one’s breast | D – F |
| CAESAR, William (alias Smegergill) | Forbear fond swain, I cannot love | Dialogue |
| CAESAR, William (alias Smegergill) | If any live that fain would prove | E – F |
| CAVE, John | Now Whitehall’s in a grace (Lovelace) | A – F with Chorus |
| CHARLES, Thomas | Why will you swear I am forsworn (Lovelace) | D – E |
| COLEMAN, Charles | Bright Aurelia, I do owe | E – G |
| COLEMAN, Charles | Change, Platonics, change for shame | E – G |
| COLEMAN, Charles | Did not you once, Lucinda, vow | Dialogue |
| COLEMAN, Charles | How am I chang’d from what I was | F – G |
| COLEMAN, Charles | Wake my Adonis, do not die (Cartwright) | D – G |
| COLEMAN, Charles | When Celia I intend to flatter you | F – F |
| COLEMAN, Charles | Wilt thou be gone, thou heartless man | E flat – G |
| COLEMAN, Edward | The glories of our birth and state (Shirley: Ajax and Ulysses) | G – F sharp |
| COLEMAN, Edward | Why, dearest, should you weep (Cotton) | D – A |
| DERING, Lady Mary | In vain, fair Chloris, you design (Dering) | F sharp – D |
| GAMBLE, John | The morning doth waste | C – G |
| GOODGROOME, John | Dost see how unregarded now (Suckling) | E – E |
| GOODGROOME, John | Fret on, fond Cupid, curse thy feeble bow | G – G |
| HILL, Roger | Admit, thou darling of mine eyes (Carew) | E – F |
| HILTON, John | Am I despis’d because you say (Herrick) | E flat – G |
| HILTON, John | Hang golden sleep upon her eyelids fair | D – D |
| HILTON, John | If that I for thy sweet sake | D – F |
| HILTON, John | Rise, princely shepherd, and be arbiter | Dialogue |
| HILTON, John | Thou may’st be proud (Herrick) | C – G |
| HILTON, John | Wilt thou forgive the sin where I begun? (Donne) | D – G |
| HILTON, John | You meaner beauties of the night (Wotton) | F – G |
| IVES, Simon | Go bid the swan in silence die | F sharp – G |
| IVES, Simon | Shepherd well met, I prithee tell | Dialogue |
| IVES, Simon | Will Chloris cast her sun-bright eyes | sharp – E |
| JEFFREYS, George | Cruel! but once again (The Rival Friends) | D – E |
| JEFFREYS, George | Drowsy Phoebus, come away (Hausted: The Rival Friends) | Dialogue |
| JEFFREYS, George | Have pity, grief; I cannot pay (The Rival Friends) | F – F |
| JENKINS, John | Cease not, thou heav’nly-voiced glorious creature | D – F |
| JENKINS, John | Why sigh’st thou, shepherd? (Randolph) | Dialogue |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Fire! fire! Lo here I burn (Campian) | F sharp – E |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Like hermit poor in pensive place obscure (Raleigh) | D – D |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Love and I of late did part | D – E |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Mark how the blushful morn (Carew) | D – F |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Neither sighs, nor tears, nor mourning | C – E |
| LANIER, Nicholas | No more shall meads be deck’d with flow’rs (Carew) | B – G |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Nor com’st thou yet, my slothful love | C – G |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Silly heart forbear | F – F/G – G |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Stay, silly heart, and do not break | D – F |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Tell me, shepherd, dost thou love? | Dialogue |
| LANIER, Nicholas | Weep no more my wearied eyes | D – F |
| LAWES, Henry | As Celia rested in the shade (Carew) | Dialogue |
| LAWES, Henry | Beauty and love once fell at odds | F – G |
| LAWES, Henry | Bid me but live, and I will live (Herrick) | G – F |
| LAWES, Henry | Break heart in twain! Fair Ronile may see | F sharp – A |
| LAWES, Henry | Come from the dungeon to the throne (Cartwright) | C – F |
| LAWES, Henry | Come my sweet while ev’ry strain | D – G |
| LAWES, Henry | Go thou gentle whisp’ring wind (Carew) | D – F |
| LAWES, Henry | Hard-hearted fair, if thou wilt not consent | C – E flat |
| LAWES, Henry | Have you e’er seen the morning sun (Hughes) | D – D |
| LAWES, Henry | I rise and grieve | C – G |
| LAWES, Henry | No, no, fair heretic, it cannot be (Suckling) | E – F (G) |
| LAWES, Henry | Now the sun is fled | C – A with Chorus |
| LAWES, Henry | O let me groan one word into thine ear (Pembroke) | D – F |
| LAWES, Henry | Or you, or I, nature did wrong! | F – G |
| LAWES, Henry | O tell me love! O tell me fate! (Hughes) | D – G |
| LAWES, Henry | O turn away those cruel eyes (Stanley) | C sharp – G |
| LAWES, Henry | Out upon it, I have lov’d (Suckling) | C – D |
| LAWES, Henry | Sleep soft, you cold clay cinders that late clad | D – F |
| LAWES, Henry | Slide soft you silver floods | D – F |
| LAWES, Henry | Speak, speak, at last reply | D – E |
| LAWES, Henry | Sweet stay awhile! why do you rise? (Donne) | F sharp – G |
| LAWES, Henry | Thou, O bright Sun, who see’st all | G – A with Chorus |
| LAWES, Henry | ’Tis but a frown, I prithee let me die | D – F |
| LAWES, Henry | Transcendent beauty, thou that art | D – G |
| LAWES, Henry | Wert thou yet fairer than thou art | G – G |
| LAWES, Henry | When thou, poor excommunicate (Carew) | F sharp – G |
| LAWES, Henry | Whither are all her false oaths blown (Herrick) | D – A |
| LAWES, Henry | Will you know my mistress’ face? | E flat – E flat |
| LAWES, William | Charon, O Charon! Hear a wretch oppress’d | Dialogue |
| LAWES, William | Come Adonis, come away (Tatham) | E – G |
| LAWES, William | Faith, be no longer coy | F – G |
| LAWES, William | Gather ye rosebuds while ye may (Herrick) | G – E |
| LAWES, William | No, no, fair heretic, it needs must be | F sharp – F sharp |
| LAWES, William | Pleasures beauty, youth attend ye (Ford) | F – E |
| LAWES, William | To whom shall I complain; to men or gods? | D – E |
| LAWES, William | Why should great beauty virtuous fame desire (Davenant) | D – G |
| LAWES, William | Why so pale and wan, fond lover? (Suckling) | B – E flat |
| MACE, Stephen | Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan (Beaumont and Fletcher) | D – F |
| MARSH, Alfonso | Ah Chloris! would the gods allow | F – G |
| RAMSEY, Robert | Go perjur’d man! and if you e’er return (Herrick) | F sharp – G |
| RAMSEY, Robert | Howl not, you ghosts and furies, while I sing (Herrick) | Dialogue |
| RAMSEY, Robert | Thou may’st be proud (Herrick) | D – E flat |
| RAMSEY, Robert | What tears, dear Prince, can serve (Raleigh) | G – G |
| SAVILE, Jeremy | I will not trust thy tempting graces (Stanley) | G sharp – A |
| SMITH, Robert | He that did ever scorn love’s might | D – E |
| TAYLOR, John | Lay that sullen garland by thee | D – G |
| TAYLOR, John | Tell me not that I die, or live by thee (Tatham) | F sharp – F sharp |
| WEBB, William | As life what is so sweet (two versions) | C – E flat/C – E flat |
| WEBB, William | Go and bestride the southern wind | D – F |
| WEBB, William | Look back Castara from thine eye (Habington) | F – A |
| WEBB, William | Pow’rful Morpheus, let thy charms | F sharp – F sharp |
| WEBB, William | Since ’tis my fate to be thy slave | G – E |
| WEBB, William | Victorious beauty, though your eyes (Townshend) | G – E |
| WILSON, John | As tuned harp strings sad notes take | G – G |
| WILSON, John | Awake, awake! The morn will never rise (Davenant) | F – G |
| WILSON, John | From the fair Lavinian shore | D – D |
| WILSON, John | In a maiden time profess’d (Middleton) | F – G |
| WILSON, John | In a season all oppressed | A – E |
| WILSON, John | In the merry month of May (Breton) | F – G |
| WILSON, John | Languish and despair, my heart! | C – G |
| WILSON, John | Pity of beauty in distress | G – G |
| WILSON, John | Since love hath in thine and mine eye | D – F |
| WILSON, John | Take, O take those lips away (Beaumont and Fletcher) | G – G |
| WILSON, John | Thou great and good! Could I but rate (Montrose) | B – F |
| WILSON, John | Turn, turn thy beauteous face away (Beaumont and Fletcher) | F – F |
| WILSON, John | Wherefore peep’st thou, envious day? (Donne) | G – A/G – G |
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