SATB choir
SKU:
ST.EM35A
Composed by
Robert Jones. Edited by
Edmund H Fellowes.
Library Volumes. Edited
Edmund Fellowes. Revised
Thurston Dart. Paperback.
Madrigals. Choral Score.
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
#EM35A. Published by
Stainer & Bell Ltd.
(ST.EM35A).
ISBN
9790220209796.
Jone
s was a famous lutenist
and one of the musicians
responsible for training
the 'children of St
Paul's', who acted and
sang in Elizabethan and
Jacobean court plays. His
16 madrigals are mostly
to texts about birds -
birds merry, sweet,
shrill, crowing or
melancholic.
CONTENTS
Are lovers
full of fire?
(SSAATBB)
But let her
look in mine (SST)
Cock-a-doodle-doo (SS (or
A) A (or T) B)
Come,
doleful owl (SSTTB)
Fair Oriana seeming to
wink (SSAATB)
I come,
sweet birds (SS (or A) A
(or T) B)
Love, if a
god thou art (SST)
O
I do love (SST (or
A))
She only is the
pride (SSA)
Shrill-sounding bird (SST
(or A) B)
Sing, merry
birds (SS (or A) A (or T)
B)
Sweet, when thou
singest (SSATB)
The
more I burn
(SSAATTBB)
Thine eyes
so bright (SSA)
When
I behold her eyes
(SST)
Your presence
breeds (SSAATB).