Thomas Morley

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Contents 1 Life 2 List of choral works 2.1 Sacred music 2.2 Secular music 2.2.1 Canzonets or Little Short Songs to foure Voyces selected from Italian composers 2.2.2 Canzonets to Three Voices - 1593 2.2.3 Madrigals to Four Voices - 1594 2.2.4 Canzonets to Two Voices - 1595 2.2.5 First Book of Ballets - 1595 2.2.6 Canzonets or Litle Short Aers to Five and Six Voices - 1597 2.2.7 A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicalle Musicke - 1597 2.2.8 First Book of Ayres - 1600 2.2.9 Triumphs of Oriana - 1601 3 Publications 4 External links

Life

Born: c. 1557

Died: 1602

Biography

View Wikipedia article for Thomas Morley.

List of choral works

Sacred music

• Agnus Dei   (   Finale-1998 )
• The Funeral Sentences (with text from the Book of Common Prayer, 1559)
• First Dirge Anthem (Funeral Sentences)   (   ENCORE )
• Second Dirge Anthem   (   ENCORE
• Third Dirge Anthem   (   ENCORE )

• Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Fauxbourdon   (   Sibelius 2 )
• Man is Blest, The   (   MUP )
• Nolo mortem peccatoris   (   Finale-2001 )

Secular music

Canzonets or Little Short Songs to foure Voyces selected from Italian composers

E.H. Fellowes included these (un-numbered) in his edition of Madrigals to Four voices.

• My heart, why hast thou taken   2 editions available
• Still it frieth   2 editions available

Canzonets to Three Voices - 1593

1. See, mine own sweet jewel   3 editions available
2. Joy, joy doth so arise   2 editions available
3. Cruel, you pull away too soon   2 editions available
4. Lady, those eyes   2 editions available
5. Hold out my heart   2 editions available
6. Good morrow, fair ladies of the May   2 editions available
7. Whither away so fast   2 editions available
8. Blow, Shepherds, blow   2 editions available
9. Deep lamenting   2 editions available
10. Farewell disdainful   2 editions available
11. O fly not   2 editions available
12. Thirsis, let pity move thee   5 editions available
13. Now must I die recureless   2 editions available
14. Lady, if I through grief   2 editions available
15. Cease mine eyes   2 editions available
16. Do you not know?   2 editions available
17. Where art thou wanton?   2 editions available
18. What ails my darling   2 editions available
19. Say dear, will you not have me?   2 editions available
20. Arise, get up my dear   2 editions available

The following pieces were included in a 2nd Edition, published in 1606.

     21. Love learns by laughing   (  )
     22. This Love is but a wanton fit   (  )
     23. Though Philomela lost her love )    5 editions available
     24. Spring-time mantleth every bough   (  )

Madrigals to Four Voices - 1594

1. April is in my mistress' face )    8 editions available
2. Clorinda false   (  )
3. Why sit I here complaining   (  )
4. Since my tears and lamenting   (  )
5. Help I fall   (  )
6. Lady, why grieve you still me   (  )
7. In dew of roses   (  )
8. In ev'ry place    2 editions available
9. Now is the gentle season    2 editions available
10. The fields abroad  ) (part 2 of number 9) 2 editions available
11. Come, lovers, follow me   (  )
12. O, no thou dost but flout me   (  )
13. I will no more come to thee   (  )
14. Besides a fountain       2 editions available
15. Sport we my lovely treasure   (  )
16. O sweet alas what say you   (  ) (part 2 of number 15)
17. Hark, jolly shepherds    2 editions available
18. Ho, who comes here   (  )
19. Die now, my heart    2 editions available
20. Say gentle nymphs that tread    2 editions available
21. Round around about a wood   (  )
22. On a fair morning   (  )

Canzonets to Two Voices - 1595

1. Go ye, my Canzonets    2 editions available
2. When lo, by break of morning )    3 editions available
3. Sweet nymph come to thy lover )    3 editions available
4. I go before, my darling    3 editions available
5. Miraculous love’s wounding    2 editions available
6. Lo, here another love    2 editions available
7. Leave now, mine eyes    2 editions available
8. Fire and lightning from heaven    2 editions available
9. In nets of golden wires    2 editions available
10. In nets of golden wires    2 editions available
11. O thou that art so cruel    2 editions available
12. I should for grief and anguish    2 editions available

First Book of Ballets - 1595

1. Dainty fine sweet nymph   (  )
2. Shoot false love, I care not   (  )
3. Now is the Month of Maying )    9 editions available
4. Sing we and chant it  )    5 editions available
5. Singing alone   (  )
6. No, no, no, no, Nigella       2 editions available
7. My Bonny Lass She Smileth    3 editions available
8. I saw my lovely Phillis   (  )
9. What saith my dainty darling   ((  )
10. Thus saith my Galatea   (  )
11. About the maypole   (  )
12. My lovely wanton jewel   (  )
13. You that wont to my pipes sound (Lirum lirum)       2 editions available
14. Fyer, fyer    5 editions available
15. Those dainty daffadillies   (  )
16. Ladies, those cherries plenty   (  )
17. I love, alas, I love thee    3 editions available
18. Lo, she flies   (  )
19. Leave alas this tormenting    2 editions available
20. Why weeps alas   (  )

Included in the 2nd Edition published in 1600 the following piece is to seven voices
     21. Phillis, I fain would die now       2 editions available

Canzonets or Litle Short Aers to Five and Six Voices - 1597

1. Fly love that art so sprightly   (  )
2. False love did me inveigle   (  )
3. Adieu, adieu you kind and cruel   (  )
4. Love’s folk in green arraying   (  )
5. Love took his bow and arrow   (  )
6. Lo where with flowery head   (  )
7. O, grief, e'en on the bud   2 editions available
8. Sovereign of My Delight   (  )
9. Our Bonny-boots could toot it   (  )
10. Ay me, the fatal arrow   ( (  )
11. My nymph, the dear   (  )
12. Cruel, wilt thou persever   (  )
13. Said I that Amarillis   2 editions available
14. Damon and Phillis   (  )
15. Lady you think you spite me   (  )
16. You bright black stars   (  )
17. I follow, lo, the footing   (  )
18. Stay heart, run not so fast   (  )
19. Good Love, then fly thou to her   (  )
20. Ladies, you see time flieth   ( (  )
21. Hark, alleluia   (  )

A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicalle Musicke - 1597

Included as an example, this piece was included by E. H. Fellowes in his re-publication of Canzonets to Three Voices.

• O sleep, fond fancy   (  )

Shown as a wordless “air” in Morley’s book. Thurston Dart set these words to it from a piece by Thomas Bateson published in his First Set of Madrigals (1604).

• O fly not love   (  )

First Book of Ayres - 1600

1. A Painted Tale    (  )
2. Thirsis and Milla   (  )
3. She straight her light green silken coats   (  )
4. With my love my life was nestled   (  )
5. I saw my lady weeping   (  )
6. It was a lover and his lass    3 Editions available
7. Who is it that this dark night   (  )
8. Mistress mine, well may you fare   (  )
9. Can I forget what Reason's force   (  )
10. Love Winged My Hope   (  )
11. What if my mistress now   (  )
12. Come, Sorrow come   (  )
13. Fair in a morn   (  )
14. Absence, hear thou my protestation   (  )
15. White as lilies was her face   (  )
16. This piece appears to be lost to history
17. Will you buy a fine dog?   (  )
18. Sleep, slumb'ring eyes   (  )

Triumphs of Oriana - 1601

• Arise, awake   (  )
• Hard by a Crystal Fountain    4 editions available

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Publications

• Canzonets for Three Voices (complete)   (   ABC )
• Canzonets for Two Voices (complete)   (   ABC )

External links

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