Madrigals and Partsongs

This book contains 59 of the finest examples of the secular choral repertoire, ranging from the late 15th to the 20th century and spanning all the major European countries. All the pre-twentieth-century pieces are in completely new editions going back to the earliest and most reliable sources. Includes English translations and playable keyboard reductions.
Some items from this volume are available separately in the Oxford Choral Classics Octavo series.

"OUP goes from strength to strength with its Choral Classics catalogue. With a huge repertoire, ranging from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries from which to choose, Clifford Bartlett has clearly spent a great deal of time and effort, not only in selecting what to include, but also what to exclude . . . All of this in one volume, bound and presented in the excellent format which we have come to know and expect from OUP. What more can I say, except "More please". Very highly recommended." - Henry Howell, Australian Music Teacher, September 2003

Anon: Dindirín, dindirín
Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno
Bartlet: Of all the birds that I do know
Bennet: All creatures now
Brahms: Nachtwache No. 1
Britten: The Evening Primrose
Campion: Never weather-beaten sail
Cornelius: So weich und warm
Debussy: Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans
Delius: Two Unaccompanied Partsongs
Dowland: Come, heavy sleep
Dowland: Can she excuse
Dowland: Weep you no more, sad fountains
Elgar: As torrents in summer
Elgar: My love dwelt in a Northern land
Elgar: There is sweet music
Farmer: Fair Phyllis I saw
Finzi: My spirit sang all day
Ford: Since first I saw your face
Gabrieli (G.): Lieto godea
Gastoldi: Amor vittorioso
Gibbons: Ah, dear heart
Gibbons: The silver swan
Gibbons: What is our life?
Hassler: Tanzen und springen
Hassler: Ach, Weh des Leiden
Haydn: Die Harmonie in der Ehe
Isaac: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen
Le Jeune: Revoici venir du printemps
Jones: Farewell, dear love
Josquin Desprez(?): Mille regrets
Lassus: Chi chi li chi
Lassus: La nuit froide et sombre
Lassus: Bonjour mon coeur
Lassus: Matona, mia cara
Marenzio: Crudel perché mi fuggi
Marenzio: Scaldava il sol
Monteverdi: O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia
Monteverdi: Ohimè se tanto amate
Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna
Morley: My bonny lass she smileth
Morley: Now is the month of maying
Parry: Music, when soft voices die
Passereau: Il est bel et bon
Pearsall: Lay a garland
Pilkington: Rest, sweet nymphs
Rore: Ancor che col partire
Sandrin: Douce mémoire
Schubert: Der Tanz
Senfl: Ach Elslein, liebes Elselein
Sermisy: Au joli bois
Stanford: The blue bird
Stanford: Heraclitus
Sullivan: The long day closes
Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs
Vautor: Sweet Suffolk owl
Weelkes: Thule, the period of cosmography (The first part)
Weelkes: The Andalusian merchant (The second part)
Wilbye: Draw on, sweet Night
Wilbye: Weep, weep, mine eyes