English lute songs - Book 1

Description

The two books contain some 100 songs chosen from the definitive collections of The English Lutenists begun by Edmund Fellowes, revised by Thurston Dart and added to by later scholars. They include many favourites and many lesser-known songs by popular composers such as Dowland, Campion and Pilkington (no known ancestor of the compiler) as well as some unjustly forgotten such as Corkine, Attey and Ferrabosco. Nearly all are for middle-range voice, with lute parts transcribed in staff notation. The books have an appropriate preface and a commentary on the words, which often throw a penetrating light on Elizabethan and Jacobean life.

• ANONYMOUS
  • As at noon Dulcina rested
  • Sweet, stay awhile!
• JOHN ATTEY
  • On a time the amorous Silvy
• JOHN BARTLET
  • A pretty duck there was
  • O Lord, thy faithfulness
  • What thing is love?
  • When from my love
• THOMAS CAMPION
  • A secret love or two
  • Author of light
  • Beauty, since you so much desire
  • Come you pretty false-eyed wanton
  • Follow thy fair sun
  • Follow your saint
  • I must complain
  • If love loves truth
  • If thou long'st so much
  • It fell on a summer's day
  • Love me or not
  • My sweetest Lesbia
  • Never love unless you can
  • O what unhoped for sweet supply!
  • Oft have I sigh'd
  • The cypress curtain of the night
  • The peaceful western wind
  • There is a garden in her face
  • Vain men, whose follies
  • Veil, love, mine eyes
  • When to her lute Corinna sings
  • Your fair looks
• MICHAEL CAVENDISH
  • Love is not blind
  • Stay, Glycia, stay!
  • The heart to rue
  • Wanton, come hither!
• WILLIAM CORKINE
  • He that hath no mistress
  • Sweet Cupid
  • Sweet, let me go!
• JOHN DANYEL
  • Dost thou withdraw thy grace?
  • I die whenas I do not see
  • Like as the lute delights
  • Why canst thou not?
• ALFONSO FERRABOSCO II
  • Drown not with tears
  • Fain I would
  • Like hermit poor
  • Unconstant love
  • Young and simple though I am
• THOMAS FORD
  • Fair sweet cruel
  • Not full twelve years
  • Now I see thy looks were feigned
  • Since first I saw your face
  • Unto the temple of thy beauty
• RICHARD GREAVES
  • Ye bubbling springs
• ROBERT JOHNSON
  • Dear do not your fair beauty wrong