The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (Robert Jones)
General Information
Title: The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure parts with Tableture for the Lute. So made that all the parts together, or either of them severally may be song to the Lute, Orpherian or Viol de gambo.
Composer: Robert Jones
Number of voices: 4vv Voicings: SATB or Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: Lute, orpharion, bass-viol, or a cappella
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Description: A collection of 21 songs in four parts, with lute tablature.
List of works
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- A Womans Lookes
- Fond wanton youths
- Shee whose matchlesse beauty
- Once did I love
- Led by a strong desire
- Lie downe poore heart
- Where lingring feare
- Hero care not though
- When love and time
- Sweete come away
- Women what are they
- Farewell deere love
- O my poore eies
- If fathers knew
- Life is but a Poets phable
- Sweete Philomell
- That heart
- What if I seeke
- My mistris
- Perplexed
- Can modest plaine desire
Copies
British Library, London, shelfmark K.9.a.17 [incomplete, bound with the second book]
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., shelfmark 14732 [incomplete]
Editions
Fellowes, E.H. ed., 1925, First Booke of Songs and Ayres. 1600, London: Stainer & Bell [music, volume 4 in 'The English School of Lutenist Song Writers', second series]
Fellowes, E.H. ed., 1959, First Booke of Songs and Ayres. 1600, London: Stainer & Bell [revised edition of above, by Thurston Dart and Gerald Hendrie]
Greer, David ed., 1978, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres…, London: Scolar Press [facsimile - collated from both copies]
University Microfilms Inc., 1973, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres…, Ann Arbor, Michigan [microfilm - reel 1314 of the Early English Books series]
References
Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., 1986, A short-title catalogue…, 2nd edition, London: Bibliographical Society, no. 14732
RISM A/I/4 J642