Synopses & Reviews
Compiled and edited by Steven Stolen and Richard Walters, this collection has been specifically compiled to be extraordinarily useful to student singers. 17 composers are represented with historical information and 34 songs. Contents: As I Walked Forth One Summer Day * Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind * Come and Trip It * Diaphenia * Fain Would I Change That Note * Fair, If You Expect Admiring * Flow My Tears * Hark! the Echoing Air * Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow? * Here amid the Shady Woods * How Happy Art Thou * I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly * I'll Sail upon the Dog Star * If Music Be the Food of Love * In Sherwood Lived Stout Robin Hood * It Was a Lover and His Lass * Jack and Joan * Let Me Wander Not Unseen * My Lovely Celia * Nymphs and Shepherds * O Come, O Come, My Dearest * Pastime with Good Company * Rest Sweet Nymphs * The Silver Swan * Since First I Saw Your Face * Tell Me No More * Thou Soft Flowing Avon * Weep You No More, Sad Fountains * What If I Never Speed * When Daisies Pied * When Laura Smiles * Where E'er You Walk * Whither Runneth My Sweetheart? * Willow Song.
Table of Contents
Have you seen but a white lily grow? / anonymous, early 17th century -- Willow song / anonymous, early 17th century -- Pastime with good company / anonymous, 16th century, attributed to King Henry VIII -- Thou soft flowing Avon ; Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; O come, o come, my dearest : from the pantomime The fall of Phaeton ; When daisies pied / Thomas Arne -- Whither runneth my sweetheart? / John Bartlet -- Tell me no more / John Blow -- Fair, if you expect admiring ; Jack and Joan / Thomas Campian -- Weep you no more, sad fountains ; Flow my tears ; What if I never speed? / John Dowland -- The silver swan / Orlando Gibbons -- Since first I saw your face / Thomas Ford -- Here amid the shady woods : from the oratorio Alexander Balus ; Come and trip it : from the oratorio L'Allegro ; Let me wander not unseen : from the oratorio L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato ; Where e'er you walk : from the oratorio Semele / George Frideric Handel -- As I walked forth one summer day / Robert Johnson -- Fain would I change that note / Tobias Hume -- In Sherwood lived stout Robin Hood / Robert Jones -- How happy art thou / Henry Lawes -- My lovely Celia / George Munro -- It was a lover and his lass / Thomas Morley -- Rest sweet nymphs ; Diaphenia / Francis Pilkington -- Nymphs and shepherds : from the play The libertine ; Hark! the echoing air : from The fairy queen ; I attempt from love's sickness : from The Indian queen ; I'll sail upon the Dog Star : from the play The fool's preferment, or, The three dukes of Dunstable ; If music be the food of love : first version / Henry Purcell -- When Laura smiles / Philip Rosseter.