SATB choir - Early
intermediate
SKU:
GI.G-10911
Composed
by Thomas Weelkes. Edited
by Vance Acker. GIA
Historical Music. Music
Education. Octavo. 8
pages. GIA Publications
#10911. Published by GIA
Publications
(GI.G-10911).
English.
Weelkes
is best known for both
his Anglican Church music
and secular vocal
music (i.e.,
madrigals, balletts, and
canzonets). His madrigals
are known for having
humorous or dramatic
texts and for their
expressive use of word
painting, as well as for
their use of chromaticism
for emotional effect.
“Cease,
Sorrows Now†is
one of the madrigals in
Weelkes’ first
publication, published in
1597, Madrigals to 3, 4,
5, & 6 Voyces.