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  2. The Oxford Book of English Madrigals - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. English Madrigal School - Wikipedia

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    The English Madrigal School was the intense flowering of the musical madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who produced them. The English madrigals were a cappella, predominantly light in style, and generally began as either copies or direct translations of Italian models. Most were for three to six voices.

  4. Musica Transalpina - Wikipedia

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    The title-page of Musica transalpina, 1588. Musica Transalpina is a collection of madrigals published in England by Nicholas Yonge in 1588. The madrigals had crossed the Alps (hence the name) in the sense that the madrigal form was borrowed from the Italians, and the pieces included in the collection were mainly by Italians, although the lyrics were rendered into English by Yonge.

  5. Fair Phyllis - Wikipedia

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    Fair Phyllis (also Fair Phyllis I saw, Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone) is an English madrigal by John Farmer. The music is polyphonic and was published in 1599. The madrigal contains four voices and uses occasional imitation. It also alternates between triple and duple beat subdivisions of the beat in different parts of the work.

  6. Weep, o mine eyes - Wikipedia

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    Weep, o mine eyes" is one of the most famous madrigals of the English composer John Bennet. [1] It is written for four vocal parts and was first published in his first collection, Madrigalls to Fovre Voyces, in 1599. [2] [3] The composition is an homage to John Dowland, being based partly on Dowland's most famous piece, "Flow, my tears". [4]

  7. Thomas Weelkes - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. The Triumphs of Oriana - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Madrigal - Wikipedia

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    Artistically, the madrigal was the most important form of secular music in Renaissance Italy, and reached its formal and historical zenith in the later-16th century, when the form also was taken up by German and English composers, such as John Wilbye (1574–1638), Thomas Weelkes (1576–1623), and Thomas Morley (1557–1602) of the English ...