Life
Born: c. 1557
Died: 1602
Biography
The entry in Cathedral Music, Volume 1 (William Boyce) reads:
Thomas Morley was admitted Batchelor in Music at Oxford, 1588, and became Gentleman of the Royal Chapels to Queen Elizabeth, in 1592. He publish'd a learned Treatise in 1597, entitled A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Musicke, which he dedicated to William Bird, who had been his Master. He died in 1602.
View the Wikipedia article on Thomas Morley .
List of choral works
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Sacred music
Secular music
Canzonets or Little Short Songs to foure Voyces selected from Italian composers
E.H. Fellowes included these (un-numbered) in his edition of Madrigals to Four voices .
Canzonets to Three Voices - 1593
See, mine own sweet jewel (4 editions available )
Joy, joy doth so arise (3 editions available )
Cruel, you pull away too soon (3 editions available )
Lady, those eyes (4 editions available )
Hold out my heart (3 editions available )
Good morrow, fair ladies of the May (2 editions available )
Whither away so fast (3 editions available )
Blow, Shepherds, blow (2 editions available )
Deep lamenting (2 editions available )
Farewell disdainful (3 editions available )
O fly not, O take some pity (3 editions available )
Thirsis, let pity move thee (3 editions available )
Now must I die recureless (3 editions available )
14. Lady, if I through grief (3 editions available )
15. Cease mine eyes (3 editions available )
16. Do you not know? (3 editions available )
17. Where art thou wanton? (3 editions available )
18. What ails my darling (3 editions available )
19. Say dear, will you not have me? (3 editions available )
20. Arise, get up my dear (2 editions available )
The following pieces were included in a 2nd edition, published in 1606.
21. Love learns by laughing (4 editions available )
22. This Love is but a wanton fit (2 editions available )
23. Though Philomela lost her love (5 editions available )
24. Spring-time mantleth every bough (2 editions available )
Madrigals to Four Voices - 1594
April is in my mistress' face (12 editions available )
Clorinda false (2 editions available )
Why sit I here, alas, complaining (2 editions available )
Since my tears and lamenting (2 editions available )
Help I fall (2 editions available )
Lady, why grieve you still me (2 editions available )
In dew of roses (5 editions available )
In ev'ry place (3 editions available )
Now is the gentle season (4 editions available )
The fields abroad (part 2 of number 9) (3 editions available )
Come, lovers, follow me (2 editions available )
12. O no, thou dost but flout me (2 editions available )
13. I will no more come to thee (2 editions available )
14. Besides a fountain (2 editions available )
15. Sport we my lovely treasure (2 editions available )
16. O sweet, alas, what say you? (part 2 of number 15) (2 editions available )
17. Hark, jolly shepherds (3 editions available )
18. Ho! who comes here? (2 editions available )
19. Die now, my heart (3 editions available )
20. Say gentle nymphs that tread (3 editions available )
21. Round around about a wood (2 editions available )
22. On a fair morning (2 editions available )
Canzonets to Two Voices - 1595
First Book of Ballets - 1595
Dainty fine sweet nymph (2 editions available )
Shoot false love, I care not (2 editions available )
Now is the month of maying (11 editions available )
Sing we and chant it (6 editions available )
Singing alone (2 editions available )
No, no, no, no, Nigella (2 editions available )
My bonny lass she smileth (3 editions available )
I saw my lovely Phillis (2 editions available )
What saith my dainty darling? (2 editions available )
Thus saith my Galatea (2 editions available )
About the maypole (2 editions available )
My lovely wanton jewel (2 editions available )
13. You that wont to my pipe's sound (3 editions available )
14. Fyer, fyer (6 editions available )
15. Those dainty daffadillies (2 editions available )
16. Lady, those cherries plenty (2 editions available )
17. I love, alas, I love thee (4 editions available )
18. Lo, she flies (2 editions available )
19. Leave, alas, this tormenting (4 editions available )
20. Why weeps, alas, my lady? (2 editions available )
Included in the 2nd edition published in 1600, the following piece is to seven voices
21. Phillis, I fain would die now (3 editions available )
Canzonets or Litle Short Aers to Five and Six Voices - 1597
Fly love that art so sprightly (2 editions available )
False love did me inveigle (2 editions available )
Adieu, adieu you kind and cruel (2 editions available )
Love’s folk in green arraying (2 editions available )
Love took his bow and arrow (2 editions available )
Lo where with flowery head (2 editions available )
O grief, e'en on the bud (3 editions available )
Sovereign of My Delight (2 editions available )
Our Bonny-boots could toot it (2 editions available )
Ay me, the fatal arrow (2 editions available )
My nymph, the dear (2 editions available )
12. Cruel, wilt thou persever (2 editions available )
13. Said I that Amarillis (3 editions available )
14. Damon and Phillis (2 editions available )
15. Lady you think you spite me (2 editions available )
16. You black bright stars (2 editions available )
17. I follow, lo, the footing (2 editions available )
18. Stay heart, run not so fast (2 editions available )
19. Good Love, then fly thou to her (2 editions available )
20. Ladies, you see time flieth (2 editions available )
21. Hark, alleluia (2 editions available )
A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicalle Musicke - 1597
Included as an example, this piece was included by E. H. Fellowes in his re-publication of Canzonets to Three Voices .
Shown as a wordless “air” in Morley’s book. Thurston Dart set these words to it from a piece by Thomas Bateson published in his First Set of Madrigals (1604).
First Book of Ayres - 1600
Triumphs of Oriana - 1601
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