Canzonets or little short songs to foure voyces (Thomas Morley)

General information

Title: Canzonets or little short songs to foure voyces

Full Title: Canzonets. or little short songs to foure voyces: celected out of the best and approved Italian Authors.

Editor: Thomas Morley

Publication date and place: 1597 in London by Peter Short.

Genre, Subgenre: Secular, Madrigals. Language: English, 4 voices.

Description: A collection of eighteen canzonette for four voices by Italian composers with lyrics translated into English, along with a two-part work by the editor, Thomas Morley.

Facsimile: British Library

List of works

1. Now that each creature (Giovanni Bassano) 2. Since that the time of fleeting (Giovanni Croce) 3. Lady let me behold (Giovanni Croce) 4. Lo lady for your love (Giovanni Croce) 5. Fine dainty girle delightsome (Giovanni Bassano) 6. White lilies be her cheeks (Giovanni Croce) 7. Flora fair love (Felice Anerio) 8. My heart, why hast thou taken (Thomas Morley) - part one 9. Still it frieth (Thomas Morley) - part two 10. Kiss me mine only jewel (Giovanni Bassano)

11. Faine would I die (Ludovico da Viadana) 12. Come shepherds' god (Orazio Vecchi) 13. Weary and windless (Orazio Vecchi) 14. Miraculous love's wounding (Felice Anerio) 15. Fast by a brooke (Orazio Vecchi) 16. When lo by break of morning (Felice Anerio) 17. Long hath my live been kept (Felice Anerio) 18. Pearl crystal gold and ruby (Felice Anerio) 19. Cease shepherds cease (Felice Anerio) 20. Daphne the bright (Giovanni Croce)

Works at CPDL

Title	Composer	Lyricist	Year	No.	Subgenre	Voices
Lasciatemi mirar	Giovanni Croce		1588	3	Madrigals	TTBB
Mentre la bella Dafne	Giovanni Croce		1588	20	Madrigals	TTBB,ATTB
My heart, why hast thou taken	Thomas Morley		1597	8	Madrigals	SSST,SSAT
Still it frieth	Thomas Morley		1597	9	Madrigals	SSAA, SSAT

References

External websites:

• RISM 1597²³