The First Set of Madrigals (Robert Jones)
General Information
Title: The First Set of Madrigals, of 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Parts, for Viols and Voices, or for Voices alone, or as you please. Composed by Robert Iones.
Composer: Robert Jones
Language: English
Instruments: Lute, orpharion, bass-viol, or A cappella
Publication date and place: 1607 in London.
'Imprinted by John Windet'.
Description: A collection of 26 madrigals in three to eight parts.
Notes: Only the Cantus and Bassus partbooks survive, but nine of the madrigals also exist in manuscript copies. A further six were reconstructed for the Stainer & Bell publication (see below). Jones produced no subsequent sets of madrigals.
List of works
Songs for three voices
Songs for four voices
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Songs for five voices
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Songs for six voices
Song for seven voices
Song for eight voices
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Works at CPDL
- No works at CPDL
Copies
British Library, London, shelfmark K.3.h.16 [Cantus and Bassus only]
Editions
Fellowes, E.H. ed., 1924, First Set of Madrigals. 1607, London: Stainer & Bell [music, volume 35a in 'The English Madrigalists']
Fellowes, E.H. ed., 1961, First Set of Madrigals. 1607, London: Stainer & Bell [revised edition of above, by Thurston Dart]
University Microfilms Inc., 1959, The First Set of Madrigals…, Ann Arbor, Michigan [microfilm - reel 802 of the Early English Books series]
References
Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., 1986, A short-title catalogue…, 2nd edition, London: Bibliographical Society, no. 14737