The English Madrigalists
The English Madrigalists is a comprehensive publication on madrigal work during the epoch of Queen Elizabeth I.
The series was edited by Edmund H. Fellowes , originally comprises 36 volumes and was published in London from 1913 to 1924. Recently, a revised edition by Thurston Dart was published. The series has continued in recent times.
The best-known English madrigalists include the composers John Dowland (1563–1626), Thomas Morley (1558–1602), Francis Pilkington (approx. 1570–1638), William Byrd (1543–1623), Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) and Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623).
Contents overview
- 1: Morley: Canzonets to Two and Three Voices (1595/1593)
- 2: Morley: Madrigals to Four Voices (1594)
- 3: Morley: Canzonets to Five and Six Voices (1597)
- 4: Morley: First Book of Ballets to Five Voices (1595/1600)
- 5: Gibbons: Madrigals and Motets for Five Parts (1612)
- 6: Wilbye: First Set of Madrigals (1598)
- 7: Wilbye: Second Set of Madrigals (1609)
- 8: Farmer: Madrigals for Four Voices (1599)
- 9: Weelkes: Madrigals to Three, Four, Five and Six Voyces (1597)
- 10: Weelkes: Ballets and Madrigals to Five Voices (1598/1608)
- 11: Weelkes: Madrigals to Five and Six Parts (1600)
- 13: Weelkes: Airs or Fantastic Spirits to Three Voices (1608)
- 17: Lichfild: First Set of Madrigals of Five Parts (1613)
- 18: Tomkins: Songs of Three, Four, Five and Six Parts (1622)
- 19: Ward: First Set of Madrigals (1613)
- 20: Farnaby: Canzonets to Foure Voyces (1598)
- 21: Bateson: First Set of Madrigals (1604)
- 22: Bateson: Second Set of Madrigals (1618)
- 23: Bennet: Madrigals for Four Voices (1599)
- 24: Kirbye: First Set of English Madrigals (1597)
- 25: Pilkington: First Set of Madrigals (1613)
- 26: Pilkington: Second Set of Madrigals (1624)
- 27: Carlton: Madrigals to Five Voices (1601)
- 28: Youll: Canzonets to Three Voices (1608)
- 29: East: Madrigals to Three, Four and Five Parts (1604)
- 30: East: Second Set of Madrigals (1606)
- 31A: East: Third Set of Books (1610)
- 31B: East: Fourth Set of Books (1618)
- 32: collected Thomas Morley (1601). The Triumphs of Oriana
- 33: Alison: An Hour's Recreation in Musicke (1606)
- 34: Author: Songs of Divers Airs and Natures (1619)
- 35A: Jones: First Set of Madrigals (1607)
- 35B: Mundy: Songs and Psalms (1594)
- 36: Madrigals by Michael Cavendish, Thomas Greaves, William Holborne and Richard Edwards
- 37: Nicolson: Collected Madrigals (c. 1600)
- 38: Ward: Madrigals and Elegies from Manuscript Sources
- 39: Kirbye: Madrigals from Manuscript Sources
- 40: Amner: Sacred Hymnes of Three, Four, Five and Six Parts (1615)
- 41: Croce: Musica Sacra (1608)
- 42: Yonge: Musica Transalpina (1588)
literature
- EH Fellowes: An Index to the English Madrigalists and the English School of Lutenist Song Writers / Hall, Alison / Boston. Music Library Assn, 1985.