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It contains words and full music for some 60 of the madrigals and songs of the English Madrigal School. When selecting works for this book, Ledger decided to represent the major composers of 16th-century English music such as William Byrd and Thomas Morley with several madrigals, alongside individual works by lesser-known composers.
The Oxford Book of English Madrigals, ed. Philip Ledger. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1978. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1978. ISBN 0-19-343664-7 (Issued with recordings of 38 of these madrigals by Pro Cantione Antiqua (augmented) under Philip Ledger - OUP 151/2)
His main interest seems to have been madrigals. A set of madrigals by him appeared in 1598, and a second in 1608, the two sets containing sixty-four pieces. [4] Wilbye is probably the most famous of all the English madrigalists; his pieces have long been favourites and are often included in modern collections. [4]
ISBN 1-56159-174-2; The University of Reading Library featuring: Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke. London, 1597 ; Philip Ledger (ed) The Oxford Book of English Madrigals OUP 1978; The Madrigal, Jerome Roche, 1972. ISBN 0-09-113260-6; Shaw, Watkins (1965). "Thomas Morley of Norwich". The Musical Times. 106 (1471).
First Set of English Madrigals of three, four, five, and six parts, apt both for Viols and Voices ; with a mourning song, in memory of Prince Henry. Newly composed by John Ward. 1613 Edition: ed Fellowes, EM 19 1922, 1968 (rev). Two of Ward's madrigals are included in The Oxford Book of English Madrigals.
The Triumphs of Oriana is a book of English madrigals, compiled and published in 1601 by Thomas Morley, which first edition [1] has 25 pieces by 23 composers (Thomas Morley and Ellis Gibbons have two madrigals) for 5 and 6 voices. The first 14 madrigals are for 5vv, the last 11 for 6vv. It was said to have been made to honour Queen Elizabeth I.
[3] Weelkes remained at the college for three or four years, and, according to Brown, during this period he composed his finest madrigals. [3] They appeared in two volumes (1598 and 1600); Brown calls the second – works for five and six voices – "one of the most important volumes in the English madrigal tradition." [3]
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th centuries) and early Baroque (1600–1750) [citation needed] periods, although revisited by some later European composers. [1]