An Howres Recreation in Musicke (Richard Allison)

Title: An Howres Recreation in Musicke, apt for Instrumentes and Voyces

Composer: Richard Allison

First Publication date and place: 1606 London.

Description: "All for the most part with two trebles, necessarie for such as teach in private families" (frontispiece)

Facsimile: London RCM

List of Works

To 4 voices The man upright of life He only can behold (second verse) O heavy heart, whose harms In hope a king doth go to war (second verse) Though wit bids will to blow retreat (third verse) But yet it seems a foolish drift (fourth verse) I cannot more but hope, good heart (fifth verse) Who loves this life from love his love My prime of youth, my feast of joy The spring is past, and yet (second verse)

To 5 voices 11. Rest with yourselves 12. For lust is frail, where love (second verse) 13. Shall I abide this jesting? 14. Can I abide this prancing (second verse) 15. The sturdy rock, for all his strength 16. The stately stag that seems so stout 17. What if a day or a month 18. Earth's but a point to the world (second verse) 19. There is a garden in her face 20. Those cherries fairly do enclose (second verse) 21. Her eyes, her eyes like angels (third verse) 22. Behold now, praise the Lord 23. O Lord, bow down thine ear 24. The sacred quire of angels

Works at CPDL

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