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Born: c. 1557 in Norwich, East Anglia, England Died: Oct 1602 |
Thomas Morley
Born a brewer's son, he probably sang as a boy in the Norwich Cathedral as he became Master of Choristers there in 1583 at about age 25 having apparently already been a student of William Byrd in the early 1570s. After receiving his Bachelor's Degree from Oxford in the same year that Nicholas Yonge published "Musica Transalpina" (1588), Morley found his musical direction and began publishing his own books.
View a digital facsimile of the 1771 imprint of "Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke" re-titled "Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music"
For more complete information, please see - - the Wiki article - - the CPDL article - - - - the IMSLP article - - the WIMA article - - A short selection of his work is below... |
| Title | secular | sacred | available in |
|---|---|---|---|
Ballets | |||
| About the maypole | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Dainty fine sweet nymph | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Fyre, fyre | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| I love, alas, I love thee | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| I saw my lovely Phillis | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Ladies, those cherries plenty | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Leave, alas, this tormenting | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Lo, she flies | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| My bonny lass she smileth | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| My lovely wanton jewel | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| No, no, Nigella | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Now is the month of Maying | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Shoot false love, I care not | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Sing we and chant it | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Singing alone | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Those dainty daffadillies | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Thus saith my Galatea | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| What saith my dainty darling | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Why weeps alas | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| You that wont to my pipes sound | x | NWC or MIDI | |
Canzonets for Two Voices | |||
| Fire and lightning | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Flora, wilt thou torment me? | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Go ye my canzonets | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| I go before my darling | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| I should for grief and anguish | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| In nets of golden wires | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Leave now, mine eyes, lamenting | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Lo, here another love | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Miraculous love's wounding | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| O thou that art so cruel | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Sweet nymph, come to thy lover | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| When lo, by break of morning | x | NWC or MIDI | |
Canzonets for Three Voices | |||
| Arise, get up | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Blow, shepherds, blow | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Cease, mine eyes | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Cruel, you pull away too soon | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Deep lamenting | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Do you not know | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Farewell, disdainful | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Good morrow, fair ladies of the May | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Hold out, my heart | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Joy, joy doth so arise | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Lady, if I through grief | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Lady, those eyes | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Love learns by laughing | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Now must I die recureless | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| O fly not | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| O fly not, love | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| O sleep, fond fancy | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Say, dear, will you not have me | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| See, mine own sweet jewel | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Spring-time mantleth every bough | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Thirsis, let pity move thee | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| This Love is but a wanton fit | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Though Philomela lost her love | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| What ails my darling | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Where art thou, wanton | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Whither away so fast | x | NWC or MIDI | |
Canzonets for Five Voices | |||
| Adieu, you kind and cruel | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Arise, awake | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Ay me, the fatal arrow | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Cruel, wilt thou persever | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Damon and Phillis | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| False love did me inveigle | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Fly love that art so sprightly | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| I follow, lo the footing | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Lady you think you spite me | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Lo where with flowery head | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Love took his bow and arrow | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Love's folk in green arraying | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| My Nymph, the dear | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| O grief, e'en on the bud | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Our Bonny-boots could toot it | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Said I that Amarillis | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Sovereign of my delight | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| You bright black stars | x | NWC or MIDI | |
Canzonets for Six Voices | |||
| Good Love, then fly thou to her | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Hard by a crystal fountain | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Hark, alleluia | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Ladies, you see time flieth | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Stay heart, run not so fast | x | NWC or MIDI | |
Madrigals for Four Voices | |||
| April is in my mistress' face | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Besides a fountain | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Clorinda false | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Come, lovers, follow me | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Die now, my heart | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Hark jolly shepherds | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Help I fall | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Ho, who comes here | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| I will no more come to thee | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| In dew of roses | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| In every place | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Lady, why grieve you still me | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| My heart why hast thou taken - - - Part 1 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Still it frieth - - - Part 2 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Now is the gentle season - - - Part 1 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| The fields abroad - - - Part 2 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| O, no, thou dost but flout me | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| On a fair morning | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Round around about a wood | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Say gentle nymphs | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Since my tears and lamenting | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Sport we, my lovely treasure - - - Part 1 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| O sweet, alas, what say you - - - Part 2 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Why sit I here complaining | x | NWC or MIDI | |
Dialog for Seven Voices | |||
| Phillis, I fain would die now | x | NWC or MIDI | |
Lute Songs (or Ayres) | |||
| A painted tale | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Absence, hear thou my protestation | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Can I forget what reason's force | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Come, Sorrow come | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Fair in a morn (lyrics by Nicholas Breton) | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| I saw my lady weeping | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| It was a lover and his lass | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Love wing'd my hopes | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Mistress mine, well may you fare | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Sleep, slumb'ring eyes | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Thirsis and Milla - - - Part 1 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| She straight her light green silken coats - - - Part 2 of 2 | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| What if my mistress now | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| White as lilies | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Who is it that this dark night | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| Will you buy a fine dog? | x | NWC or MIDI | |
| With my love my life was nestled | x | NWC or MIDI | |