Composer: Henry Lawes (c1595 - 1662)

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• Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1
• no. ?. Ariadne (Text: William Cartwright)
• no. ?. A Complaint against Cupid (Text: William Cartwright)
• no. ?. To his inconstant mistress (Text: Thomas Carew)
• no. ?. In the person of a lady to her inconstant servant (Text: Thomas Carew)
• no. ?. To his mistress going to sea (Text: Thomas Carew)
• no. ?. The surprise (Text: Carew Raleigh)
• no. ?. Disdaine returned (Text: Thomas Carew) GER
• no. ?. To a Lady singing (Text: Edmund Waller)
• no. ?. To the same Lady, singing the former Song (Text: Edmund Waller)
• no. ?. Beauties excellency (Text: Henry Noel)
• no. ?. To Amarantha, To dishevell her haire (Text: Richard Lovelace)
• no. ?. The reform'd lover (Text: Thomas Nevill, Sir)
• no. ?. The cælestiall mistress (Text: Thomas Finch, Sir, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea)
• no. ?. Night and day to his mistress (Text: Thomas Carew)
• no. ?. To his mistress objecting his age (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. ?. To his mistress upon his going to travell (Text: Henry Harrington)
• no. ?. Love above Beauty (Text: Henry Reynolds)
• no. ?. Mediocrity in love rejected (Text: Thomas Carew) GER
• no. ?. The selfe banished (Text: Edmund Waller)
• no. ?. The Heart entire (Text: William, Earl of Pembroke)
• no. ?. The bud (Text: Edmund Waller)
• no. ?. The primrose (Text: Robert Herrick)
• no. ?. Cælia singing (Text: Francis Finch )
• no. ?. Love and loyalty (Text: Charles Lucas)
• no. ?. Anacreon's Ode, call'd, The Lute (Text: John Berkenhead after Anacreon) FRE GER GER GER
• no. ?. Desperato's banquet (Text: William Stroud)
• no. ?. To Cælia, inviting her to marriage (Text: Henry Bathurst)
• no. ?. Beauty paramount (Text: William Killigrew, Sir)
• no. ?. Youth and Beauty (Text: Aurelian Townshend)
• no. ?. Love and musick (Text: William Cartwright)
• no. ?. The excellency of wine (Text: ?, Lord Broughall)
• no. ?. An Anniversary on the Nuptials of John Earle of Bridgewater, July 22. 1652 (Text: John Berkenhead)
• no. ?. Staying in London after the Act for Banishment, and going to meet a Friend who fail'd the hour appoynted (Text: John Berkenhead)
• no. ?. No constancy in Man (Text: Henry Lawes)
• no. ?. Beauties eclyps'd (Text: Francis Lenton)
• no. ?. An Eccho (Text: Thomas Fuller)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

• A Complaint against Cupid (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: William Cartwright)
• A despairing lover
• A Dialogue on a Kiss (Text: Anonymous)
• A dialogue (Text: Thomas Carew)
• A dream
• Amarillis, by a spring (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Amintor's welladay (Text: Henry Hughes)
• Anacreon's Ode, call'd, The Lute (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: John Berkenhead after Anacreon) FRE GER GER GER
• An Anniversary on the Nuptials of John Earle of Bridgewater, July 22. 1652 (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: John Berkenhead)
• An Eccho (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Fuller)
• Ariadne (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: William Cartwright)
• Beauties eclyps'd (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Francis Lenton)
• Beauties excellency (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Henry Noel)
• Beauty paramount (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: William Killigrew, Sir)
• Cælia singing (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Francis Finch )
• Desperato's banquet (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: William Stroud)
• Disdaine returned (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Carew) GER
• Go, lovely rose (Text: Edmund Waller; Henry Kirke White) SPA
• Hark, shepherd swains
• Have you e'er seen the morning sun (Text: Henry Hughes)
• In the person of a lady to her inconstant servant (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Carew)
• I prithee send me back my heart (Text: Henry Hughes; John Suckling, Sir)
• I rise and grieve
• Love above Beauty (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Henry Reynolds)
• Love and loyalty (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Charles Lucas)
• Love and musick (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: William Cartwright)
• Love's sweet repose (Text: Robert Herrick)
• Mediocrity in love rejected (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Carew) GER
• My soul the great God's praises sings (Text: Thomas Carew after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• My sweetest bird (Text: Anonymous after Giovanni Battista Guarini)
• Night and day to his mistress (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Carew)
• No constancy in Man (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Henry Lawes)
• Orpheus' Hymn (Text: John Birkenhead, Sir)
• Sabrina Fair (Text: John Milton)
• Sing fair Clorinda
• Sitting by the streams (Text: Thomas Carew after Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• Slide soft you silver floods
• Staying in London after the Act for Banishment, and going to meet a Friend who fail'd the hour appoynted (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: John Berkenhead)
• Sweet, stay awhile
• Tavola (Text: Henry Lawes after Antonio Cifra)
• The anglers' song (Text: Izaak Walton)
• The bud (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Edmund Waller)
• The cælestiall mistress (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Finch, Sir, 2nd Earl of Winchilsea)
• Thee and thy wondrous deeds (Text: Bible or other Sacred Texts)
• The excellency of wine (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: ?, Lord Broughall)
• The Heart entire (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: William, Earl of Pembroke)
• The lark
• The mournful lovers (Text: 17^th century)
• The nightingale
• The primrose (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• The reform'd lover (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Nevill, Sir)
• The selfe banished (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Edmund Waller)
• The surprise (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Carew Raleigh)
• To a Lady singing (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Edmund Waller)
• To Amarantha, To dishevell her haire (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Richard Lovelace)
• To Cælia, inviting her to marriage (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Henry Bathurst)
• To his inconstant mistress (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Carew)
• To his mistress going to sea (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Thomas Carew)
• To his mistress objecting his age (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Robert Herrick)
• To his mistress upon his going to travell (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Henry Harrington)
• To the same Lady, singing the former Song (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Edmund Waller)
• Youth and Beauty (in Ayres and Dialogues, Book 1) (Text: Aurelian Townshend)

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Last update: 2021-02-26 00:19:26