The Muses Gardin for Delights (Robert Jones)
General Information
Title: The Muses Gardin for Delights, Or the fift Booke of Ayres, onely for the Lute, the Base-vyoll, and the Voyce.
Composer: Robert Jones
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Madrigal
Language: English
Instruments: Lute, bass-viol
Publication date and place: London, 1610, 'Printed by the Assignes of William Barley' .
Description: A collection of 21 songs for one voice, lute and bass-viol.
Notes: The lute parts of this book and of A Musicall Dreame are, in places, crude and dissonant. It has been suggested that, in these cases, Jones is only responsible for the melody and bass lines, but there is little external evidence to support this.
List of works
- The fountaines smoake
- Walking by the River side
- I cannot chuse but give a smile
- Joy in thy hopes
- How many New yeeres have growen olde
- There was a shepheard that did live
- The Sea hath many thousand sands
- Once did my thoughts both ebbe and flow
- I am so farre from pittying thee
- As I lay lately in a dreame
- There was a willy ladde
- My father faine would have me take
- My Love hath her true Love betraide
- All my sence thy sweetnesse gained
- To thee deafe Aspe with dying voice
- Behold her lockes like wires of beaten Gold
- Although the Wings of my desire be clipt
- Might I redeeme mine errors with mine eyes
Copies
One copy of the original survives: Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California, shelfmark 62107
There is a photographic copy of this at the British Library, shelfmark K.2.g.3
Editions
Barclay Squire, W. ed., 1901, The Muses Gardin for Delights…, Oxford, UK: Daniel, 4° [text only]
Barclay Squire, W. ed., 1901, The Muses Gardin for Delights…, Oxford, UK: Blackwells, 8° [text only]
Warlock, P. ed, 1923, The Muses Gardin for Delights…, London: Enoch [piano arrangement]
Fellowes, E. H. ed., 1927, The Muses Gardin for Delights…, London: Stainer & Bell [music, volume 9 in 'The English School of Lutenist Song Writers', second series]
Greer, David ed., 1978, The Muses Gardin for Delights…, London: Scolar Press [facsimile]
References
Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., 1986, A short-title catalogue…, 2nd edition, London: Bibliographical Society, no. 14736