A Book of Ayres (Philip Rosseter)

General information

Title: A Booke of Ayres

Full Title: A Booke of Ayres, set foorth to be song to the lute, orpherian, and base violl, by Philip Rosseter lutenist

Composers: Thomas Campion and Philip Rosseter

Publication date and place: 1601 in London by Peter Short by the assent of Thomas Morley.

Genre, Subgenre: Secular, Lute songs. Language: English, 1 voices.

Description: A collection of lute songs shared equally by Thomas Campion and Philip Rosseter, who contribute twenty-one songs each.

List of works

Songs by Thomas Campion

1. My sweetest Lesbia

2. Though you are young

3. I care not for these ladies

4. Follow the faire sunne

5. My love hath vowed he will forsake me

6. When to her lute

7. Turne backe you wanton flier

8. It fell on a sommers daie

9. The Sypres curten

10. Follow your Saint

11. Fair, if you expect admiring

12. Thou art not faire

13. See where she flies

14. Blame not my cheekes

15. When the god of merry love

16. Mistris since you so much desire

17. Your faire lookes enflame

18. The man of life upright

19. Harke all you Ladies

20. When thou must home

21. Come let us sound with melodie

Songs by Philip Rosseter

22. Sweete come againe

23. And would you see

24. No grave for woe

25. If I urge my kind desires

26. What hearts content

27. Let him that will be free

28. Reprove not love

29. And would you faine

30. When Laura smiles

31. Long have mine eies

32. Though far from joy

33. Shall I come if I swim

34. Aie me that love

35. Shall then a trayterous

36. If I hope I pine

37. Unless there were consent

38. If she forsakes me

39. What is a daie

40. Kind in unkindnesse

41. What then is love but

42. Whether me doe laugh

Works at CPDL

Title	Composer	Year	No.	Subgenre	Vo.	Voices
Fair, if you expect admiring	Thomas Campion	1601	11	Madrigals	1	S
I care not for these ladies	Thomas Campion	1601	3	Lute songs	1	Solo medium
If I urge my kind desires	Philip Rosseter	1601	25	Lute songs	6	TTTBBB
If she forsake me	Philip Rosseter	1601	38	Lute songs	5	TTBBB
My love hath vowed he will forsake me	Thomas Campion	1601	5	Madrigals	2	SA
My sweetest Lesbia	Thomas Campion	1601	1	Lute songs	1	solo medium
When Laura smiles	Philip Rosseter	1601	30	Lute songs	6	TTTBBB
When the god of merry love	Thomas Campion	1601	15	Madrigals	1	A

References

External websites:

RISM 1601¹⁷