Thomas Morley

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Born: c. 1557

Died: 1602

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Sacred music

• ''Agnus Dei   (   Finale-1998 )

The Funeral Sentences (with text from the Book of Common Prayer, 1559)

• ''First Dirge Anthem (Funeral Sentences)   (   ENCORE )
• ''Second Dirge Anthem   (   ENCORE
• ''Third Dirge Anthem   (   ENCORE )

• ''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Fauxbourdon   (   Sibelius 2 )
• ''Man is Blest, The   (   MUP )
• ''Nolo mortem peccatoris   (   Finale-2001 )

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.

• ''My heart, why hast thou taken    2 editions available
• ''Still it frieth    2 editions available

Canzonets to Three Voices - 1593

1. See, mine own sweet jewel )   3 Editions available
2. Joy, joy doth so arise    2 Editions available
3. Cruel, you pull away too soon    2 editions available
   
4. Lady, those eyes    2 editions available
5. Hold out my heart    2 editions available
6. Good morrow, fair ladies of the May    2 editions available
7. Whither away so fast )    2 editions available
8. Blow, Shepherds, blow    2 editions available
9. Deep lamenting    2 editions available
10. Farewell disdainful    2 editions available
11. O fly not )    2 editions available
12. Thirsis, let pity move thee    5 editions available
13. Now must I die recureless    2 editions available
14. Lady, if I through grief    2 editions available
15. Cease mine eyes    2 editions available
16. Do you not know?    2 editions available
17. Where art thou wanton? )    2 editions available
18. What ails my darling   2 editions available
19. Say dear, will you not have me?    2 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   (  )
     22. This Love is but a wanton fit   (  )
     23. Though Philomela lost her love )    5 editions available
     24. Spring-time mantleth every bough   (  )

Madrigals to Four Voices - 1594

1. April is in my mistress' face )    8 editions available
2. Clorinda false   (  )
3. Why sit I here complaining   (  )
4. Since my tears and lamenting   (  )
5. Help I fall   (  )
6. Lady, why grieve you still me   (  )
7. In dew of roses   (  )
8. In ev'ry place    2 editions available
9. Now is the gentle season    2 editions available
10. The fields abroad  ) (part 2 of number 9) 2 editions available
11. Come, lovers, follow me   (  )
12. O, no thou dost but flout me   (  )
13. I will no more come to thee   (  )
14. Besides a fountain       2 editions available
15. Sport we my lovely treasure   (  )
16. O sweet alas what say you   (  ) (part 2 of number 15)
17. Hark, jolly shepherds    2 editions available
18. Ho, who comes here   (  )
19. Die now, my heart    2 editions available
20. Say gentle nymphs that tread    2 editions available
21. Round around about a wood   (  )
22. On a fair morning   (  )

Canzonets to Two Voices - 1595

1. Go ye, my Canzonets    2 editions available
2. When lo, by break of morning )    3 editions available
3. Sweet nymph come to thy lover )    3 editions available
4. I go before, my darling    3 editions available
5. Miraculous love’s wounding    2 editions available
6. Lo, here another love    2 editions available
7. Leave now, mine eyes    2 editions available
8. Fire and lightning from heaven    2 editions available
9. In nets of golden wires    2 editions available
10. In nets of golden wires    2 editions available
11. O thou that art so cruel    2 editions available
12. I should for grief and anguish    2 editions available

First Book of Ballets - 1595

1. Dainty fine sweet nymph   (  )
2. Shoot false love, I care not   (  )
3. Now is the Month of Maying )    9 editions available
4. Sing we and chant it  )    5 editions available
5. Singing alone   (  )
6. No, no, no, no, Nigella       2 editions available
7. My Bonny Lass She Smileth    3 editions available
8. I saw my lovely Phillis   (  )
9. What saith my dainty darling   ((  )
10. Thus saith my Galatea   (  )
11. About the maypole   (  )
12. My lovely wanton jewel   (  )
13. You that wont to my pipes sound (Lirum lirum)       2 editions available
14. Fyer, fyer    5 editions available
15. Those dainty daffadillies   (  )
16. Ladies, those cherries plenty   (  )
17. I love, alas, I love thee    3 editions available
18. Lo, she flies   (  )
19. Leave alas this tormenting    2 editions available
20. Why weeps alas   (  )

Included in the 2nd Edition published in 1600 the following piece is to seven voices
     21. Phillis, I fain would die now       2 editions available

Canzonets or Litle Short Aers to Five and Six Voices - 1597

1. Fly love that art so sprightly   (  )
2. False love did me inveigle   (  )
3. Adieu, adieu you kind and cruel   (  )
4. Love’s folk in green arraying   (  )
5. Love took his bow and arrow   (  )# Lo where with flowery head   (  )
6. O, grief, e'en on the bud )    2 editions available
7. SovereIgn of My Delight   (  )
8. Our Bonny-boots could toot it   (  )
9. Ay me, the fatal arrow   ( (  )
10. My nymph, the dear   (  )
11. Cruel, wilt thou persever   (  )
12. Said I that Amarillis   (  )
13. Damon and Phillis   (  )
14. Lady you think you spite me   (  )
15. You bright black stars   (  )
16. I follow, lo, the footing   (  )
17. Stay heart, run not so fast   (  )
18. Good Love, then fly thou to her   (  )
19. Ladies, you see time flieth   ( (  )
20. Hark, alleluia   (  )

A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicalle Misicke - 1597

Included as an example, this piece was included by E. H. Fellowes in his re-publication of Canzonets to Three Voices.

• O sleep, fond fancy   (  )

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).

• O fly not love   (  )

First Book of Ayres - 1600

A Lute-song

• It was a lover and his lass    2 Editions available

Triumphs of Oriana - 1601

• Arise, awake   (  )
• Hard by a Crystal Fountain    4 editions available

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Publications

• Canzonets for Three Voices (complete)   (   ABC )
• Canzonets for Two Voices (complete)   (   ABC )

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