Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by R. Jones

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Robert Jones (flourished 1597-1615)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

A Muses Gardin for Delights or the Fifth Booke of Ayres

no. ?. There was a wyly Ladde (Text: Anonymous)

A Musical Dreame or Fourth Booke of Ayres

no. ?. Will saide to his Mammy (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. In Sherwood lived stout Robin Hood (Text: Robert Jones)
Ite caldi sospiri (Text: Francesco Petrarca)

First Book of Airs

no. 1. A woman's looks (Text: Anonymous)
no. 2. Fond Wanton youths (Text: Anonymous)
no. 3. She whose matchless beauty (Text: Anonymous)
no. 4. Once did I love (Text: Anonymous)
no. 5. Led by a strong desire (Text: Anonymous)
no. 6. Lie down, poor heart (Text: Anonymous)
no. 7. Where ling'ring fear (Text: Anonymous)
no. 8. Hero, care not though they pry (Text: Anonymous)
no. 9. When love on time and measure makes his ground (Text: John Lilliat) GER
no. 10. Sweet come away, my darling (Text: Anonymous)
no. 11. Women, what are they? (Text: Anonymous)
no. 12. Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone (Text: Anonymous)
no. 13. O my poor eyes (Text: Anonymous)
no. 14. If fathers knew but how to leave (Text: Anonymous)
no. 15. Life is a Poet's fable (Text: Anonymous)
no. 16. Sweet Philomel in groves and deserts haunting (Text: Anonymous)
no. 17. That heart, wherein all sorrows (Text: Anonymous)
no. 18. What if I seek for love of thee (Text: Anonymous)
no. 19. My mistress sings no other song (Text: Anonymous)
no. 20. Perplexed sore am I (Text: Anonymous)
no. 21. Can modest plain desire (Text: Anonymous) [x]

Second Book of Songs and Airs

no. ?. Love is a bable (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Love winged my hopes (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Arise, my thoughts (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Whither runneth my sweet hart (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. My love is neither young nor old (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. My love bound me with a kiss (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Love's god is a boy (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Come sorrows (Text: Anonymous)

Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres

no. ?. At her fair hands how have I grace entreated
no. ?. Oft have I mused the cause to find (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Happy he (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Sweet Love, my only treasure (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. What if I sped (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Shall I look to ease my grief? (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Now have I learn'd with much ado at last (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Think'st thou, Kate, to put me down (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Go to bed sweete muze (Text: Anonymous)
no. ?. Sweet if you like and love me stil (Text: Francis Davison)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

And is it night (Text: Anonymous)
Arise, my thoughts (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
At her fair hands how have I grace entreated (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres)
A woman's looks (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Beauty sat bathing by a spring (Text: Anthony Munday) GER
Can modest plain desire (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
Come sorrows (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Dreams and imaginations (Text: Anonymous) GER
Fair Oriana, seeming to wink at folly
Farewell, dear love, since thou wilt needs be gone (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Fie, what a coil is here! (Text: 17^th century.)
Fond Wanton youths (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Go to bed sweete muze (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Grief of my best love's absenting (Text: Anonymous)
Happy he (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Hark! Wot ye what? (Text: Anonymous)
Hero, care not though they pry (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
If fathers knew but how to leave (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
If in this flesh (Text: Anonymous)
In Sherwood lived stout Robin Hood (in A Musical Dreame or Fourth Booke of Ayres) (Text: Robert Jones)
Ite caldi sospiri (in A Musical Dreame or Fourth Booke of Ayres) (Text: Francesco Petrarca)
Lament, lament my soul (Text: William Leighton, Sir)
Led by a strong desire (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Let Thy salvation be my joy (Text: William Leighton, Sir)
Lie down, poor heart (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Life is a Poet's fable (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Love is a bable (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Love's god is a boy (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Love winged my hopes (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
My complaining is but feigning (Text: Anonymous)
My love bound me with a kiss (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
My love is neither young nor old (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
My mistress sings no other song (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Now have I learn'd with much ado at last (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Now what is Love?
Oft have I mused the cause to find (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Oh he is gone (Text: Anonymous)
O my poor eyes (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Once did I love (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Once did I serve a cruel heart (Text: Anonymous)
Perplexed sore am I (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Shall I look to ease my grief? (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
She whose matchless beauty (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Sweet come away, my darling (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Sweet if you like and love me stil (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Francis Davison)
Sweet Kate (Text: Anonymous)
Sweet Love, my only treasure (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Sweet Philomel in groves and deserts haunting (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
That heart, wherein all sorrows (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
There was a wyly Ladde (in A Muses Gardin for Delights or the Fifth Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Think'st thou, Kate, to put me down (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Though your strangeness frets my heart (Text: Anonymous)
What if I seek for love of thee (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
What if I sped (in Ultimum Vale, or the Third Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
What shall I render to the Lord (Text: William Leighton, Sir)
When love on time and measure makes his ground (in First Book of Airs) (Text: John Lilliat) GER
Where ling'ring fear (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Whither runneth my sweet hart (in Second Book of Songs and Airs) (Text: Anonymous)
Will saide to his Mammy (in A Musical Dreame or Fourth Booke of Ayres) (Text: Anonymous)
Women, what are they? (in First Book of Airs) (Text: Anonymous)

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