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)
- Eheu sustulerunt ( [ ] [ ] [ Capella] )
- The Funeral Sentences (with text from the Book of Common Prayer, 1559)
- I am the resurrection and the life (2 editions available)
- Man that is born of a woman (2 editions available)
- Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts ( [ ] [ ] [ Capella] )
- I heard a voice from heav'n (2 editions available)
- Haec dies ( [ ] [ ] [ Capella] ) O fly not, love below is also set to this music.
- O amica mea (2 editions available)
- Out of the deep (2 editions available)
- 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 (3 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 (3 editions available)
- Cruel, you pull away too soon (3 editions available)
- Lady, those eyes (3 editions available)
- Hold out my heart (3 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 (3 editions available)
- O fly not, O take some pity (3 editions available)
- Thirsis, let pity move thee (5 editions available)
- Now must I die recureless (3 editions available)
- Lady, if I through grief (3 editions available)
- Cease mine eyes (3 editions available)
- Do you not know? (3 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 (2 editions available)
- 23. Though Philomela lost her love (5 editions available)
- 24. Spring-time mantleth every bough (2 editions available)
Madrigals to Four Voices - 1594
- April is in my mistress' face (9 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 (3 editions available)
- In ev'ry place (3 editions available)
- Now is the gentle season (4 editions available)
- The fields abroad (part 2 of number 9) (3 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 (3 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 (4 editions available)
- Miraculous love’s wounding (3 editions available)
- Lo, here another love (2 editions available)
- Leave now, mine eyes (2 editions available)
- Fire and lightning from heaven (3 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 (3 editions available)
- Flora, wilt thou torment me? (3 editions available)
First Book of Ballets - 1595
- Dainty fine sweet nymph (2 editions available)
- Shoot false love, I care not (2 editions available)
- Now is the Month of Maying (11 editions available)
- Sing we and chant it (6 editions available)
- Singing alone (2 editions available)
- No, no, no, no, Nigella (2 editions available)
- My bonny lass she smileth (3 editions available)
- I saw my lovely Phillis (2 editions available)
- What saith my dainty darling? (2 editions available)
- Thus saith my Galatea (2 editions available)
- About the maypole (2 editions available)
- My lovely wanton jewel (2 editions available)
- You that wont to my pipe's sound (3 editions available)
- Fyer, fyer (6 editions available)
- Those dainty daffadillies (2 editions available)
- Ladies, those cherries plenty (2 editions available)
- I love, alas, I love thee (4 editions available)
- Lo, she flies (2 editions available)
- Leave, alas, this tormenting (4 editions available)
- Why weeps, alas, my lady? (2 editions available)
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 (2 editions available)
- O, grief, e'en on the bud (3 editions available)
- Sovereign of My Delight (2 editions available)
- Our Bonny-boots could toot it (2 editions available)
- Ay me, the fatal arrow (2 editions available)
- My nymph, the dear (2 editions available)
- Cruel, wilt thou persever (2 editions available)
- Said I that Amarillis (3 editions available)
- Damon and Phillis (2 editions available)
- Lady you think you spite me (2 editions available)
- You black bright stars (2 editions available)
- I follow, lo, the footing (2 editions available)
- Stay heart, run not so fast (2 editions available)
- Good Love, then fly thou to her (2 editions available)
- Ladies, you see time flieth (2 editions available)
- Hark, alleluia (2 editions available)
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.
- O sleep, fond fancy (2 editions available)
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 (4 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 (2 editions available)
- 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)