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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by T. Weelkes

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Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623)

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Note: A language code in a blue rectangle like ENG indicates that a translation to that language is available.
A grey rectangle like FRE indicates a particular translation (usually one set to music) exists but isn't yet available.

Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices
    • no. 1. Come, come let's begin (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 2. Jockey thine horn pipes dull (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 3. Some men desire spouses (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 4. Tomorrow is the marriage day (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 5. Upon a hill, the bonny boy (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 6. Come sirrah Jack ho (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 7. Tantara cries Mars (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 8. The Gods have heard my vows (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 9. Though my carriage be but careless (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 10. The Ape, the Monkey and Baboon DUT
    • no. 11. No, though I shrink still (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • no. 12. Ay me, alas, hey ho (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • no. 13. Late in my rash accounting (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • no. 14. Four arms, two necks, one wreathing (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 15. Lord, when I think (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 16. Say, wanton, will you love me? (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 17. I bei ligustri (Text: Anonymous) ENG
    • no. 18. Strike it up, Tabor (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 19. Ha ha, this world doth pass (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 20. Since Robin Hood (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 21. Fa la, now weep, now sing (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • no. 22. Alas, tarry bou one half hour (Text: Anonymous) [x]
    • no. 23. As deadly serpents lurking (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 24. Donna, il vostro bel viso (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 25. The nightingale (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 26. Death hath deprived me (Text: Anonymous)
  • Ballets and Madrigals to five voices
    • no. ?. To shorten winter's sadness (Text: Thomas Weelkes)
    • no. ?. Sweet Love, I will no more abuse thee (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Now is my Chloris fresh as May (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Welcome, sweet pleasure (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Farewell, my joy! (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. We shepherds sing (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Sweet heart, arise! why do you sleep (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. In pride of May (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 5. On the plains, fairy trains (Text: Barnabe Barnes)
  • Madrigals of five and six parts
    • no. ?. Lady, the birds right fairly (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Now let us make a merry greeting (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Cold Winter's ice is fled and gone (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Why are you Ladies staying (Text: Anonymous)
  • Madrigals of Six Parts
    • no. ?. A Sparrow-Hawk proud did hold in wicked jail (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Like two proud armies marching in the field (Text: Anonymous)
  • Madrigals to three, four, five and six voices
    • no. ?. Our country-swains in the morris dance (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Now every tree renews his summer’s green (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Lo! country sport that seldom fades (Text: Anonymous)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Alas, tarry bou one half hour (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • All at once well met (Text: Anonymous)
  • Alleluia. I heard a voice (Text: Anonymous) FIN
  • As deadly serpents lurking (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • A Sparrow-Hawk proud did hold in wicked jail (in Madrigals of Six Parts) (Text: Anonymous)
  • As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending (Text: Anonymous) DUT
  • Ay me, alas, hey ho (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • Cease sorrows now
  • Cold Winter's ice is fled and gone (in Madrigals of five and six parts) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Come, come let's begin (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Come sirrah Jack ho (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Death hath deprived me (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Donna, il vostro bel viso (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Fa la, now weep, now sing (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • Farewell, my joy! (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Four arms, two necks, one wreathing (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Ha ha, this world doth pass (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Hark, all ye lovely saints above (Text: Anonymous) SPA
  • I bei ligustri (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous) ENG
  • In pride of May (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Jockey thine horn pipes dull (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Lady, the birds right fairly (in Madrigals of five and six parts) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Late in my rash accounting (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • Like two proud armies marching in the field (in Madrigals of Six Parts) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Lo! country sport that seldom fades (in Madrigals to three, four, five and six voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Lord, when I think (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Most mighty and all knowing Lord (Text: William Leighton, Sir) [x]
  • No, though I shrink still (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous) [x]
  • Now every tree renews his summer’s green (in Madrigals to three, four, five and six voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Now is my Chloris fresh as May (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Now let us make a merry greeting (in Madrigals of five and six parts) (Text: Anonymous)
  • O Care, thou wilt despatch me (Text: Anonymous)
  • O happy he whom thou protectst (Text: William Leighton, Sir) [x]
  • On the plains, fairy trains (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Barnabe Barnes)
  • Our country-swains in the morris dance (in Madrigals to three, four, five and six voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Say, wanton, will you love me? (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Since Robin Hood (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Some men desire spouses (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Strike it up, Tabor (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Sweet heart, arise! why do you sleep (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Sweet Love, I will no more abuse thee (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Tantara cries Mars (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • The Ape, the Monkey and Baboon (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) DUT
  • The Gods have heard my vows (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • The nightingale (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Those spots upon my Lady's face appearing
  • Though my carriage be but careless (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Thule, the Period of Cosmography (Text: Thomas Weelkes) DUT
  • Tomorrow is the marriage day (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • To shorten winter's sadness (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Thomas Weelkes)
  • Upon a hill, the bonny boy (in Ayres or Phantasticke Sprits for Three Voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Weep, o mine eyes (Text: Anonymous) FRE
  • Welcome, sweet pleasure (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • We shepherds sing (in Ballets and Madrigals to five voices) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Why are you Ladies staying (in Madrigals of five and six parts) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Young Cupid hath proclaimed (Text: Anonymous)

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