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Texts to Art Songs and Choral Works by J. Wilbye

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John Wilbye (1574 - 1638)

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Song Cycles, Collections, Symphonies, etc.:

  • First Set of English Madrigals
    • no. ?. I sung sometimes my thoughts (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Adieu sweet Amarillis (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. ?. Ay me; can every rumour (Text: Anonymous)
    • no. 22. Flora gave me fairest flowers (Text: Anonymous)
  • Second Set of Madrigals
    • Draw on, sweet night (Text: Anonymous) DUT
    • Where most my thoughts (Text: Anonymous)
    • Happy, O happy he (Text: Anonymous)
    • I live, and yet methinks (Text: Anonymous)
    • Love me not for comely grace (Text: Anonymous)
    • So light is love (Text: Anonymous)
    • Come shepherd swains (Text: Anonymous)

All titles of vocal settings in Alphabetic order

  • Adieu sweet Amarillis (in First Set of English Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Ah cannot sighs, nor tears (Text: Anonymous)
  • Ah, cruel Amarillis, since thou tak'st delight (Text: Anonymous)
  • Alas, what a wretched life (Text: Anonymous)
  • Alas what hope of speeding (Text: Anonymous)
  • All pleasure is of this condition (Text: Anonymous)
  • And though my love abounding (Text: Anonymous)
  • As fair as morn, as fresh as May (Text: Anonymous)
  • A silly Sylvan (Text: Anonymous)
  • Away, thou shalt not love me (Text: Anonymous)
  • Ay me; can every rumour (in First Set of English Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Change me, O heavens (Text: Anonymous)
  • Come shepherd swains (in Second Set of Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Cruel behold my heavy ending (Text: Anonymous)
  • Dear Pity how, ah how wouldst thou become her? (Text: Anonymous)
  • Die hapless man (Text: Anonymous)
  • Down in a valley, as Alexis trips (Text: Anonymous)
  • Draw on, sweet night (in Second Set of Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous) DUT
  • Drunten im Thale (Text: Anonymous after Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) [x]
  • Flora gave me fairest flowers (in First Set of English Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Flourish ye hillocks (Text: Anonymous)
  • Fly, Love, aloft to heaven (Text: Anonymous)
  • Fly not so swift (Text: Anonymous)
  • Happy, O happy he (in Second Set of Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Happy streams whose trembling fall (Text: Anonymous)
  • Hard destinies are Love and Beauty parted! (Text: Anonymous)
  • Hero to the dead Leander (Text: 17th century)
  • I always beg (Text: Anonymous)
  • I am quite tired with my groans (Text: William Leighton, Sir) [x]
  • I fall, I fall O stay me (Text: Anonymous)
  • I live, and yet methinks (in Second Set of Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • I love, alas, alas, yet am not loved (Text: Anonymous)
  • I sung sometimes my thoughts (in First Set of English Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Lady, when I behold
  • Lady, when I behold
  • Lady, your words do spite me (Text: Anonymous)
  • Long have I made these hills (Text: Anonymous)
  • Love me not for comely grace (in Second Set of Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • My throat is sore (Text: Anonymous)
  • Of joys and pleasing pains (Text: Anonymous)
  • O fools; can you not see (Text: Anonymous)
  • Oft have I vowed how dearly I did love thee (Text: Anonymous)
  • O God the rock (Text: William Leighton, Sir) [x]
  • O softly drop, mine eyes (Text: Anonymous)
  • O what shall I do? (Text: Anonymous)
  • O wretched man (Text: Anonymous)
  • So light is love (in Second Set of Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Stay, Corydon, thou swain (Text: Anonymous)
  • Sweet honey-sucking Bees (Text: Anonymous)
  • Sweet Love, if thou wilt gain (Text: Anonymous)
  • The Lady Oriana
  • There where I saw (Text: Anonymous)
  • Thou art but young thou sayest (Text: Anonymous)
  • Thus Love commands (Text: Anonymous)
  • Thus saith my Cloris bright (Text: Anonymous)
  • Unkind, O stay thy flying (Text: Anonymous)
  • Weep, O mine eyes (Text: Anonymous) FRE
  • Weep, weep, mine eyes (Text: Anonymous)
  • What needeth all this travail (Text: Anonymous)
  • When Cloris heard of her Amyntas dying (Text: Anonymous)
  • When shall my wretched life (Text: Anonymous)
  • Where most my thoughts (in Second Set of Madrigals) (Text: Anonymous)
  • Why dost thou shoot? (Text: Anonymous)
  • Ye restless thoughts (Text: Anonymous)
  • Ye that do live in pleasures (Text: Anonymous)
  • Yet, sweet, take heed (Text: Anonymous)

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