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Here’s Ah Dear Heart by Orlando Gibbons. Ah_dear_heart_GibbonsDownload ..read more

Just as a bonus item, here’s Now Is The Month Of Maying. In case you don’t know it, here’s the score: Morley_Month_of_MayingDownload ..read more

Our second journey into the world of Elizabethan miserablist John Dowland. This is Can she excuse my wrongs, in which he almost flirts with cheerfulness. can_she_excuseDownload ..read more

Music, when soft voices die Music-when-soft-voices-dieDownload ..read more

You probably know Cornelius – he’s the guy who wrote Three Persian Kings which we’ve sung at Christmas. Here’s So Weich Und Warm. So_weich_und_warm_CorneliusDownload ..read more

Here’s Lieto Godea. I realised at the last minute that the original is in C and the Green Book version is transposed down to Ab. I think the notes here are mostly what everyone else will have. It’s a good job we’re all singing on mute. Lieto-GodeaDownload ..read more

Here’s a jolly wedding piece by Haydn – Die Harmonie in der Ehe: It’s in the Big Green Book (for those who have it) and the score is here for those who don’t: Hayd-dieharDownload ..read more

Here’s a madrigal by John Wilbye. It’s quite long, but I like it. Draw_on_sweet_night_WilbyeDownload ..read more

We’re going to look at Il Lamento d’Arianna, which is a set of four Italian madrigals. The music is in the Green Book (if you have it), or here. Print pages 5-29 only (or in smaller chunks if you want to print it week by week). Lamento_dAriannaDownload [HISTORICAL NOTE: Monteverdi wrote his second opera L’Arianna in 1607. All the music is lost apart from one extended aria, which Monteverdi published separately in this form ..read more