ENGLISH SECULAR MUSIC

One of the great pleasures in life is singing with friends; composers of the Renaissance seemed to understand that better than anyone. The ENGLISH SECULAR MUSIC volume of Renaissance Choral Favorites for SATB Singers features partsongs and madrigals by the leading composers of the day: Anon. (HENRY VIII's Book); Madame d'amours, all tymes or ours (ca.1513); ?Robert JOHNSON (ca.1500-ca.1560): Defyled ys my name (ca.1560); Thomas MORLEY (1557-1602): Since my teares and lamenting (1594); Giles FARNABY (ca.1563-1640): Somtime she would (1598); John WILBYE (1574-1638): Adew, sweet Amarillis (1598); John FARMER (ca.1570-1601): Faire Phyllis I saw sitting all alone (1599); and John BENNET (ca.1575 to after 1614): Weepe, O mine eyes (1599). Prize-winning musicologist and choral conductor Ross W. Duffin has created new, easy-to-read editions, from the original sources. He includes information about each composer and translations into English.