Thomas Morley
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Life
Born: c. 1557
Died: 1602
Biography
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List of choral works
- For works at CPDL sorted alphabetically by title, see Thomas Morley compositions
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Sacred music
- Agnus Dei (8 editions available)
- Domine fac mecum (2 editions available)
- The Funeral Sentences (with text from the Book of Common Prayer, 1559)
- O amica mea (2 editions available)
- Out of the deep ( )
- Short Evening Service ( [ ] )
- Nolo mortem peccatoris (2 editions available)
Secular music
Canzonets or Little Short Songs to foure Voyces selected from Italian composers
E.H. Fellowes included these (un-numbered) in his edition of Madrigals to Four voices.
- My heart, why hast thou taken (2 editions available)
- Still it frieth (2 editions available)
Canzonets to Three Voices - 1593
- See, mine own sweet jewel (3 editions available)
- Joy, joy doth so arise (2 editions available)
- Cruel, you pull away too soon (2 editions available)
- Lady, those eyes (2 editions available)
- Hold out my heart (2 editions available)
- Good morrow, fair ladies of the May (2 editions available)
- Whither away so fast (2 editions available)
- Blow, Shepherds, blow (2 editions available)
- Deep lamenting (2 editions available)
- Farewell disdainful (2 editions available)
- O fly not (2 editions available)
- Thirsis, let pity move thee (5 editions available)
- Now must I die recureless (2 editions available)
- Lady, if I through grief (2 editions available)
- Cease mine eyes (2 editions available)
- Do you not know? (2 editions available)
- Where art thou wanton? (2 editions available)
- What ails my darling (2 editions available)
- Say dear, will you not have me? (2 editions available)
- Arise, get up my dear (2 editions available)
The following pieces were included in a 2nd Edition, published in 1606.
- 21. Love learns by laughing (4 editions available)
- 22. This Love is but a wanton fit ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- 23. Though Philomela lost her love (5 editions available)
- 24. Spring-time mantleth every bough ( NoteWorthy Composer )
Madrigals to Four Voices - 1594
- April is in my mistress' face (8 editions available)
- Clorinda false (2 editions available)
- Why sit I here, alas, complaining (2 editions available)
- Since my tears and lamenting (2 editions available)
- Help I fall (2 editions available)
- Lady, why grieve you still me (2 editions available)
- In dew of roses (2 editions available)
- In ev'ry place (2 editions available)
- Now is the gentle season (2 editions available)
- The fields abroad (part 2 of number 9) (2 editions available)
- Come, lovers, follow me (2 editions available)
- O no, thou dost but flout me (2 editions available)
- I will no more come to thee (2 editions available)
- Besides a fountain (2 editions available)
- Sport we my lovely treasure (2 editions available)
- O sweet, alas, what say you? (part 2 of number 15) (2 editions available)
- Hark, jolly shepherds (2 editions available)
- Ho! who comes here? ( (2 editions available)
- Die now, my heart (3 editions available)
- Say gentle nymphs that tread (2 editions available)
- Round around about a wood (2 editions available)
- On a fair morning (2 editions available)
Canzonets to Two Voices - 1595
- Go ye, my Canzonets (2 editions available)
- When lo, by break of morning (3 editions available)
- Sweet nymph come to thy lover (3 editions available)
- I go before, my darling (3 editions available)
- Miraculous love’s wounding (2 editions available)
- Lo, here another love (2 editions available)
- Leave now, mine eyes (2 editions available)
- Fire and lightning from heaven (2 editions available)
- In nets of golden wires (2 editions available)
- O thou that art so cruel (2 editions available)
- I should for grief and anguish (2 editions available)
First Book of Ballets - 1595
- Dainty fine sweet nymph ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Shoot false love, I care not ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Now is the Month of Maying (11 editions available)
- Sing we and chant it (5 editions available)
- Singing alone ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- No, no, no, no, Nigella ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- My bonny lass she smileth (3 editions available)
- I saw my lovely Phillis ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- What saith my dainty darling ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Thus saith my Galatea ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- About the maypole (2 editions available)
- My lovely wanton jewel ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- You that wont to my pipes sound (Lirum lirum) (2 editions available)
- Fyer, fyer (6 editions available)
- Those dainty daffadillies ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Ladies, those cherries plenty ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- I love, alas, I love thee (3 editions available)
- Lo, she flies ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Leave alas this tormenting (3 editions available)
- Why weeps alas ( NoteWorthy Composer )
Included in the 2nd Edition published in 1600 the following piece is to seven voices
- 21. Phillis, I fain would die now (2 editions available)
Canzonets or Litle Short Aers to Five and Six Voices - 1597
- Fly love that art so sprightly (2 editions available)
- False love did me inveigle (2 editions available)
- Adieu, adieu you kind and cruel (2 editions available)
- Love’s folk in green arraying (2 editions available)
- Love took his bow and arrow (2 editions available)
- Lo where with flowery head ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- O, grief, e'en on the bud (2 editions available)
- Sovereign of My Delight ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Our Bonny-boots could toot it ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Ay me, the fatal arrow ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- My nymph, the dear ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Cruel, wilt thou persever (2 editions available)
- Said I that Amarillis (2 editions available)
- Damon and Phillis (2 editions available)
- Lady you think you spite me ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- You black bright stars (2 editions available)
- I follow, lo, the footing ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Stay heart, run not so fast ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Good Love, then fly thou to her ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Ladies, you see time flieth ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Hark, alleluia ( NoteWorthy Composer )
A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicalle Musicke - 1597
Included as an example, this piece was included by E. H. Fellowes in his re-publication of Canzonets to Three Voices.
Shown as a wordless “air” in Morley’s book. Thurston Dart set these words to it from a piece by Thomas Bateson published in his First Set of Madrigals (1604).
First Book of Ayres - 1600
- A Painted Tale ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Thirsis and Milla ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- She straight her light green silken coats ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- With my love my life was nestled ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- I saw my lady weeping ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- It was a lover and his lass (3 editions available)
- Who is it that this dark night ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Mistress mine, well may you fare ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Can I forget what Reason's force ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Love winged my hopes ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- What if my mistress now ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Come, Sorrow come ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Fair in a morn ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Absence, hear thou my protestation ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- White as lilies was her face ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- [This piece appears to be lost to history]
- Will you buy a fine dog? ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Sleep, slumb'ring eyes ( NoteWorthy Composer )
Triumphs of Oriana - 1601
- Arise, awake ( NoteWorthy Composer )
- Hard by a Crystal Fountain (4 editions available)
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Publications
External links
- Works by Thomas Morley in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)