Work Title
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A Collection of Madrigals and Motets
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Alternative. Title
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Title-page transcription
- A Collection of Madrigals and Motetts, chiefly for four equal voices, by the most eminent composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the greater part of which have not been hitherto published in score. Carefully collated and extracted from the original editions in parts, by Joseph Gwilt, architect, F.S.A.
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Composer
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Gwilt, Joseph
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I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.
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None [force assignment]
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Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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25 pieces:
- 1. Our Country Swains (Thomas Weelkes)
- 2. Happy Streams whose trembling fall (John Wilbye)
- 3. I wander up and down (John Bennett)
- 4. Veramente in Amore (Palestrina)
- 5. When Cloris heard (John Wilbye)
- 6. Hey trola, a Hunting Madrigal (Edward Piers)
- 7. Thus saith my Cloris bright (John Wilbye)
- 8. The Waitts (Jeremiah Savile)
- 9. Come again, sweet Love (John Dowland)
- 10. Loe Cuntrie Sports (Thomas Weelkes)
- 11. O vos omnes (T. L. da Vittoria)
- 12. It chaunced in Iconium (Christopher Tye)
- 13. Defyled is my Name (Robert Johnson)
- 14. Dame Venus hence to Paphos goe (Thomas Bateson)
- 15. As matchlesse Beauty (John Wilbye)
- 16. Heare the Voyce and Prayer (Thomas Tallis)
- 17. Sing loud, ye Nymphs (John Bennett)
- 18. Perche tormi il cor (Thomas Morley)
- 19. Cruel unkinde (John Bennett)
- 20. Thirsis, thy absence (John Farmer)
- 21. What can I do, my dearest (George Kirbye)
- 22. Thirsis, sleepest thou (John Bennett)
- 23. Fly not so swift (John Wilbye)
- 24. Whether to fast (Thomas Bateson)
- 25. False Love now shoot (Palestrina)
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First Publication.
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1815
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Language
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mainly English, some Italian and Latin
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Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Romantic
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Piece Style
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Renaissance
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Instrumentation
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4 voices
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