The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule (William Leighton)
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In 1613 the poet and minor composer Sir William Leighton published a book of his own devotional verse entitled The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule. The following year, having apparently persuaded many of the major English composers of the day to provide settings of his poems, he reissued the collection, now accompanied by the music in table format, under the same title. It is not a particularly good example of Jacobean printing and publishing - far inferior in quality, for example, to most contemporary madrigal- and song-books - but is notable for its inclusion of works accompanied by "broken" or mixed consort, for its dedication to the 14-year-old Prince Charles Stuart, later Charles I of England, and for its inclusion of what may be the last works of William Byrd.
Contents of The teares or lamentacions of a sorrowfull soule
Consort Songs
- O loving God and father dear (William Leighton)
- Come let us sing to God (William Leighton)
- My soul doth long (William Leighton)
- In thee O Lord I put my trust (William Leighton)
- Thou art my God (William Leighton)
- Almighty God which hast me brought (William Leighton)
- I cannot Lord excuse my sin (William Leighton)
- An heart that's broken and contrite (John Dowland)
- Thou God of might (John Milton the Elder)
- Yield unto God the Lord (Robert Johnson)
- Almighty God which hast me brought (Thomas Ford)
- Alas that I offended ever (Edmund Hooper)
- O God to whom all hearts are seen (Robert Kindersley)
- Almighty Lord and God of love (Nathaniel Giles)
- I'll lie me down to sleep (John Coprario)
- Attend unto my tears O Lord (John Bull)
Songs of 4 Parts
- Look down O Lord (William Byrd)
- Hidden O Lord are my most horrid sins (Francis Pilkington)
- O Lord give ear (Thomas Lupo)
- Let thy salvation be my joy (Robert Jones)
- O Got that no time (Martin Peerson)
- O Lord, how do my woes increase (Orlando Gibbons)
- Most mighty and all-knowing Lord (Thomas Weelkes)
- O let me tread in the right path (John Ward)
- I am quite tired with my groans (John Wilbye)
- What shall I render to the Lord (Robert Jones)
- In thee O Lord I put my trust (Alfonso Ferrabosco)
- Be unto me (William Byrd)
Songs of 5 Parts
- I laid me down (William Byrd)
- O Lord come pity my distress (Alfonso Ferrabosco)
- Attend unto my tears (John Bull)
- O Lord behold my miseries (John Milton the Elder)
- High mighty God of righteousness (Francis Pilkington)
- O Lord, I lift my heart to Thee (Orlando Gibbons)
- Well-spring of bounty (Edmund Hooper)
- The cause of death is wicked sin (Thomas Lupo)
- O let me at thy footstool fall (Martin Peerson)
- O Lord how do my woes increase (John Coprario)
- O happy he whom thou protect'st (Thomas Weelkes)
- Out of the deep (Nathaniel Giles)
- Save me O Lord (Robert Johnson)
- Not unto us (Thomas Ford)
- Lord ever bridle my desires (Martin Peerson)
- O had I wings like to a dove (John Milton the Elder)
- Lament, lament my soul (Robert Jones)
- O Lord consider my great moans (John Ward)
- O God, the rock of my whole strength (John Wilbye)
- I shame at mine unworthiness (John Dowland)
- If that a sinner's sighs (John Milton the Elder)
- Judge them O Lord (Robert Kindersley)
- Come help O God (William Byrd)
- O Lord come pity (Timolphus Thopul)
- In depth no man remembreth thee (Alfonso Ferrabosco)