English Madrigal-This arrangement of a favorite Thomas Morley madrigal is for SATB chorus. Bright tonalities and buoyant contrapuntal textures display the sound of Renaissance choral music.

SATB-Here is the famous madrigal by Thomas Morley in a new performing edition. Ideal for chamber madrigal and concert choirs this gentle work offers superb opportunities for developing style intonation and blend.Availableseparately: SATB a cappella. Performance Time: Approx. 1:30.

Now Is The Month Of Maying is one of the most famous of the English balletts a light part song similar to a madrigal frequently with a fa-la-la chorus common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissancecomposers. The fun piece was written by the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School Thomas Morley and published in 1595. The song delightsin bawdy double-entendre it is apparently about spring dancing but this is a metaphor for sex. Its imagery and puns are characteristic of the Renaissance. Now Is The Month Of Maying is arranged here for SATBChoir.

Sing We And Chant It is a delightful piece for SSATB Choir a cappella by Thomas Morley (1557-1602). A piano part is scored for rehearsal purposes only.

Morley's early-Renaissance setting of the Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis alternates between the unison lines based upon Gregorian tones and an SATB chorale-style texture. Edited by Francis Burgess and Royle Shore.

Par MORLEY THOMAS. Madrigale, Weltliche Chorsätze -/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte

This secular collection is a fantastic resource for experiencing the music of the Renaissance. The six well-known and representative works are: April Is in My Mistress' Face (Thomas Morley) Bonjour mon coeur (Orlando di Lasso) Innsbruck I Now Must Leave Thee (Innsbruck ich muss dich lassen) (Heinrich Isaac) Je le vous dirai (Pierre Certon) Music Most Wondrous Lovely Art (Johann Jeep) What If I Never Speed (John Dowland).Available separately: SATB a cappella.

John Bennet (c. 1575-c. 1614) was a Renaissance-era English composer who wrote several madrigals in the style of Thomas Morley. This is perhaps his most famous one and is a wonderful contest or festival selection.

In this choral nocturne the composer has taken verses by three different poets which she felt to be linked very closely in the feeling as well as in subject. The phrase ‘‘Will you come?’’ links the first poem by William Barnes tothe Second by Edward Thomas. In the Shelley poem it becomes ‘‘Come soon’’. The approach of night which gives all three poems their nocturnal feeling is gradual; evening begins to approach at the end of the Barns poem; the EdwardThomas is a real twilight poem with flashes of sights and sounds half seen and heard and then night slowly falls in the Shelley poem.To quote the composer ‘‘I have treated these three poems like the three panels of atriptych-three contrasted pieces which are one at the same time linked by the subject matter and by technical means.’’ 'Nocturnal' was commissioned by W D and H O Wills for the Cork International Choral Festival and firstperformed by Morley College Choir conducted by Graham Treacher on 22 May 1966 at the Festival.

Arranged for SATTB and piano accompaniment. Includes Awake Sweet Love composed by John Dowland for SATB.