Madrigals for Four Voices (John Bennet)

General information

Publication date and place: 1599 by William Barley in London.
Composer: John Bennet

Description: Seventeen madrigals for four voices. Texts from various sources (explained in Ford 1980). Reprinted in 1845, edited edition in 1979.

External websites:

• Reprint: London: Musical Antiquarian Society Publications, 1845.

References

• Ford, Anthony. 1980. Review of Bennet, John. Madrigals to Four Voices (1599), ed. Edmund H. Fellowes, rev. Davitt Moroney … (1979). Music and Letters 61(2):207-210.

List of Works

1. I wander up and clown 2. Weep, silly soul 3. So lovely is thy dear self 4. Let go, why do you stay me 5. Come shepherds, follow me 6. I languish to complain me 7. Sing out, ye Nymphs 8. Thyrsis, sleepest thou? 9. Ye restless thoughts

10. When as I glance 11. Cruel unkind 12. O sleep, fond fancy 13. Weep, O mine eyes 14. Since neither tunes of joy 15. O grief, where shall poor grief 16. O sweet grief, O sweet sigles 17. Rest, now Amphion

Works at CPDL

Title	Year	Lyricist	No.	Genre	Subgenre	Vo.	Voices
I languish to complain me	1599		6	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
Weep, O mine eyes	1599		13	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
Thyrsis, sleepest thou?	1599		8	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
Ye restless thoughts	1599		9	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
Come shepherds, follow me	1599		5	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
O sleep, fond fancy	1599		12	Secular	Madrigals	4	SATB
Weep, silly soul	1599		2	Secular	Madrigals	4	AATB
So lovely is thy dear self	1599		3	Secular	Madrigals	4	SSAT