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'''Facsimile:''' {{IMSLP3|316701}} | '''Facsimile:''' {{IMSLP3|316701}} | ||
'''Description:''' | '''Description:''' In all, 90 songs appear in this book: 44 in Part I, and 46 in Part II. But there is music for only 17 of them. | ||
==The 17 'Songs'== | ==The 17 'Songs'== |
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General Information
Publication date and place: 1623 London: George Wither.
Composer: Orlando Gibbons
Facsimile: Edition #316701 on IMSLP
Description: In all, 90 songs appear in this book: 44 in Part I, and 46 in Part II. But there is music for only 17 of them.
The 17 'Songs'
Part I
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Part II
- 47. For Christmas Day. A Song of Joy unto the Lord 10 10. 10 10. 10 10
- As on the night (Song 46) (Orlando Gibbons) "adapted to song 47"
- Drop, drop, slow tears a 4 (Orlando Gibbons)
- 67. When one among the Twelve there was 86. 86 (C.M.)
Gibbons wrote a bass line to the tune, though it seems a full harmony is intended, perhaps filled out by the organ. A number of CPDL editions have editorial alto & tenor parts added.
Works at CPDL
Title | Year | No. | First Line | Lyricist | Meter | Subgenre | Voices |
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Arise thou North-winde (Song 14) | 1623 | 14 | George Wither | 88. 888. 88 | Hymns | unison,SB | |
Come Holy Ghost | 1623 | 44 | George Wither | Motets | SATB | ||
Drop, drop, slow tears a 4 | 1623 | 47 | Phineas Fletcher | Hymns | SATB | ||
Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round (Song 1) | 1623 | 1 | John Chadwick | 10 10. 10 10. 10 10 | Hymns | SATB | |
From Virgin's womb | 1623 | 24b | Francis Kindlemarsh | Carols | SATB | ||
Jesu, grant me this I pray | 1623 | 13 | 77. 77 | Hymns | SATB | ||
Jesu benignissime | 1623 | 13 | 77. 77 | Hymns | SATB | ||
Lord, I will sing to Thee (Song 20) | 1623 | 20 | George Wither | 66. 86 (S.M.) | Hymns | unison,SB | |
Lord, with what zeal | 1623 | 4 | George Wither | Hymns | SATB | ||
Love of the Father, love of God the Son | 1623 | 22 | Robert Bridges | 10 10. 10 10 | Hymns | SATB | |
Nunc dimittis (Song 3) | 1623 | 3 | George Wither | Evening Canticles | SATB | ||
O Lord of Hosts, and God of Israel (Song 22) | 1623 | 22 | George Wither | 10 10. 10 10 | Hymns | unison,SB | |
Oh all you Creatures of the Lord (Song 41) | 1623 | 41 | George Wither | 88. 88. 88 | Hymns | unison,SB | |
Oh thou Lord, thou God of might | 1623 | 13a | George Wither | Hymns | SATB | ||
Thus Angels sung (Song 34) | 1623 | 34 | George Wither | 88. 88 (L.M.) | Carols | SATB | |
Thy beauty, Israel, is gone (Song 5) | 1623 | 5 | George Wither | 88. 88 (L.M.) | Hymns | SB,unison | |
When Christ was risen from the dead | 1623 | 9 | George Wither | Hymns | SATB | ||
When one among the Twelve there was (Song 67) | 1623 | 67 | George Wither | 86. 86 (C.M.) | Hymns | unison,SB | |
Who's this, that leaning on her friend (Song 18) | 1623 | 18 | George Wither | 886. 886 | Hymns | unison,SB | |
Ye that do your Master's will | 1623 | 31b | Charles Wesley | Motets | SATB | ||
Ye that do your Master's will | 1933 | 31b | Charles Wesley | Motets | SATB |