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Extra Music

          At the beginning of the list are two older English pieces: Sumer is Icumen In and Deo Gracias Anglia (aka The Agincourt Carol), which have not yet been reliably credited to any particular composer, and aren't of the same type of music, but they are intriguing.
          Sumer is icumen in was found in a manuscript from England's Reading Abbey (the words were actually written in the margins of the manuscript next to a liturgical hymn with the same music).
          Deo Gracias Anglia (usually known as The Agincourt Carol) appeared in the Chapel Royal collection by the end of Henry V's Normandy campaign of 1415-16. Indeed, the Court Rolls indicate that a John Cook, clerk of the Chapel, "is granted 6s., fore presentyng a songe onn the recente victorie" in January, 1416 (less than three months after the decisive battle), but this is not neccesarily proof of the authorship of this piece.

Changes to this page
          I have obtained access to various resources in Elizabethan choral music recently, and as a result, many of the composers represented here are being moved to their own pages linked from this one. This has been necessitated by the vast increase in material being presented, so the look of this page, in particular, will be changing often over the next few years, as I am able to edit more of these resources. If you don't see what you're looking for, write me, and I'll see if
I can move your request up on my priority listing.

			Sacred
Composer	Title
A Reading Abbey monk	Sumer is icumen in	X		NWC	MIDI
Anonymous  (discussion)	The Agincourt Carol	X		NWC	MIDI
Bartlet, John	Of All the Birds that I Do Know	X		NWC	MIDI
Bateson, Thomas	Ah, Cupid grant that I may never see	X		NWC	MIDI
	Dame Venus hence to Paphos go	X		NWC	MIDI
	Down From Above	X		NWC	MIDI
	Hark Hear You Not	X		NWC	MIDI
	If Love Be Blind	X		NWC	MIDI
	Phyllis, Farewell	X		NWC	MIDI
	Those Sweet, Delightful Lillies	X		NWC	MIDI
	Whither So Fast	X		NWC	MIDI
	Who Prostrate Lies	X		NWC	MIDI
	Your Shining Eyes	X		NWC	MIDI
Bennet, John	All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded	X		NWC	MIDI
	For The Hearne And Ducke	X		NWC	MIDI
	O Sleep, Fond Fancy	X		NWC	MIDI
	The Elves Dance	X		NWC	MIDI
	Weep, O Mine Eyes	X		NWC	MIDI
	Ye Restless Thoughts	X		NWC	MIDI
Byrd, William	Master Byrd hath his own page HERE
Campion, Thomas	My Love Hath Vowed	X		NWC	MIDI
Cavendish, Michael	Come, Gentle Swains	X		NWC	MIDI
Cornysh, William	Ave Maria Mater Dei	X		NWC	MIDI
	Adieu! Mes amours	X		NWC	MIDI
	Ah, Robin, Gentle Robin	X		NWC	MIDI
	Blow thy horn hunter	X		NWC	MIDI
	Hoyda, hoyda, jolly rutterkin	X		NWC	MIDI
	Mannerly Margery Milk and Ale	X		NWC	MIDI
Dowland, John	Please go to the Dowland page HERE
Dunstable, John	O rosa bella	X		NWC	MIDI
	Quam pulchra es et quam decora		X	NWC	MIDI
	Speciosa facta es		X	NWC	MIDI
East, Michael	Dear, why do you joy?	X		NWC	MIDI
	Farewell, False Love!	X		NWC	MIDI
	Hence, Stars Too Dim of Light	X		NWC	MIDI
	How Merrily We Live	X		NWC	MIDI
	I Heard Three Virgins	X		NWC	MIDI
	In dolorous complaining	X		NWC	MIDI
	Part II - Since tears could                                            not obtain	X		NWC	MIDI
	Poor is the Life	X		NWC	MIDI
	Quick, Quick Away, Dispatch	X		NWC	MIDI
	Part II - No haste but good	X		NWC	MIDI
	Why runs away my love?	X		NWC	MIDI
	Part II - Why do you seek                                               by flight	X		NWC	MIDI
	Why Smilest Thou Sweet Jewel	X		NWC	MIDI
Farmer, John	A Little Pretty Bonny Lass	X		NWC	MIDI
	Compare Me to the Child	X		NWC	MIDI
	Fair Nymphs, I Heard One Telling	X		NWC	MIDI
	Fair Phyllis I Saw	X		NWC	MIDI
	Take Time While Time Doth Last	X		NWC	MIDI
	You pretty flowers thay smile	X		NWC	MIDI
Farnaby, Giles	See his own page HERE
Ferrabosco, Alfonso	Find Master Alfonso's page from the Italian page
Ford, Thomas	Now I see thy looks were feigned	X		NWC	MIDI
	Since First I Saw Your Face	X		NWC	MIDI
Gibbons, Orlando	Dainty Fine Bird	X		NWC	MIDI
	The Silver Swan	X		NWC	MIDI
	What is Our Life	X		NWC	MIDI
Greaves, Thomas	Come Away, Sweet Love	X		NWC	MIDI
Hilton, John	As Flora Slept	X		NWC	MIDI
	You Lovers that have Loves Astray	X		NWC	MIDI
Hunt, Thomas	Hark! Did ye ever hear?	X		NWC	MIDI
Jones, Robert	Farewell, Dear Love	X		NWC	MIDI
	Once Did I Serve a Cruel Heart	X		NWC	MIDI
	Sweet Kate	X		NWC	MIDI
Kirbye, George	Ah, Cruel Hateful Fortune!	X		NWC	MIDI
	I love, alas, yet I am not beloved			NWC	MIDI
	Must I part, O my jewel?			NWC	MIDI
	See What A Maze Of Error	X		NWC	MIDI
	Sleep Now, My Muse	X		NWC	MIDI
	Up, Melpomene			NWC	MIDI
	Part II - Why wail we thus			NWC	MIDI
Lichfild, Henry	Shall I Seek To Ease My Grief	X		NWC	MIDI
Morley, Thomas	See Thomas Morley's page  HERE
Mundy, John	My Prime of Youth                (part 2 - In Deep Distress)	X X		NWC NWC	MIDI MIDI
	Were I a King	X		NWC	MIDI
Nicholson, Richard	Joan quoth John	X		NWC	MIDI
Philips, Peter	Wherefore Sit I Complaining	X		NWC	MIDI
Pilkington, Francis	Amyntas With His Phyllis Fair	X		NWC	MIDI
	Have I found Her?	X		NWC	MIDI
	Palaemon And His Sylvia	X		NWC	MIDI
	Rest, Sweet Nymphs	X		NWC	MIDI
	Why Should I Grieve?	X		NWC	MIDI
	What Though Her Frowns	X		NWC	MIDI
Power, Leonel	Beata progenies	X		NWC	MIDI
Ramsey, Robert	Sleep, Fleshly Birth	X		NWC	MIDI
Tallis, Thomas	If Ye Love Me		X	NWC	MIDI
	Lamentatio Jeremiae prophetae		X	NWC	MIDI
Tomkins, Thomas	Adieu, Ye City-Pris'ning Towers	X		NWC	MIDI
	Music Divine	X		NWC	MIDI
	O, Let Me Live!	X		NWC	MIDI
	O, Yes! Has Any Found A Lad?	X		NWC	MIDI
	See, see the Shepherd's Queen	X		NWC	MIDI
	The Fauns and Satyrs tripping	X		NWC	MIDI
	Too Much I Once Lamented	X		NWC	MIDI
Tudor, Henry  (Henry VIII of England)	Pastyme With Good Company	X		NWC	MIDI
Vautor, Thomas	Mother, I Will Have A Husband	X		NWC	MIDI
	Sweet Suffolk Owl	X		NWC	MIDI
Ward, John	A Satyr Once did Run Away	X		NWC	MIDI
	Come, Sable Night	X		NWC	MIDI
	Hope of My Heart	x		NWC	MIDI
	My Breast I'll Set                     Upon a Silver Stream	X		NWC	MIDI
	Out From the Vale	X		NWC	MIDI
Weelkes, Thomas	See the Thomas Weelkes page  HERE
Whythorn, Thomas	I Have Ere This Time Heard	X		NWC	MIDI
Wilbye, John	John Wilbye's page may be found  HERE