John Wilbye

Life

Born: 1574

Died: 1638

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List of choral works

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• A silly sylvan, kissing heav'n-born fire  ( [ ] [ ] [ Capella] )
• Adieu, sweet Amaryllis      (4 editions available)
• Ah! cannot sighs nor tears  (   Capella )
• Ah! cruel Amarillis  (   [ Capella] )
• Alas! What a wretched life  (   [ Capella] )
• Alas, what hope of speeding      (2 editions available)
• All pleasure is of this condition   (2 editions available)
• And though my love abounding  (   Capella )
• As fair as morn      (2 editions available)
• As matchless beauty      (3 editions available)
• Away, thou shalt not love me      (2 editions available)
• Ay mee, Can every rumor      (2 editions available)
• Change me, O heavens      (3 editions available)
• Cruel, behold my heavy ending      (2 editions available)
• Dear pity, how?  (   Capella )
• Despiteful thus unto myself, I languish  (   Capella )
• Die, hapless man  (   Capella )
• Down in a valley as Alexis trips  (   Capella )
• Draw on, sweet night      (4 editions available)
• Flora gave me fairest flowers      (3 editions available)
• Fly Love aloft      (2 editions available)
• Fly not so swift my dear      (2 editions available)
• Happy, Oh Happy He      (2 editions available)
• Happy streams, whose trembling fall  ( [ ]  [ Capella] )
• Hard destinies are love and beauty parted  (   Capella )
• I always beg      (2 editions available)
• I am quite tired with my groans  (   Capella )
• I fall, I fall  (   Capella )
• I live, and yet methinks I do not breathe  (   Capella )
• I love, alas! yet am not loved  (   Capella )
• I sung sometimes  (   Capella )
• Lady, when I behold the roses (a4)      (3 editions available)
• Lady, when I behold the roses (a6)  (   )
• Lady your words do spite me      (3 editions available)
• Long have I made these hills and valleys weary  (   Capella )
• Love not me for comely grace  (   [ Capella] )
• My throat is sore  (   Capella )
• O fools! can you not see  (   [ Capella] )
• O God, the rock of my whole strength  ( [ ]  [ Capella] )
• O, what shall I do?      (2 editions available)
• O wretched man! why lov'st thou earthly life  (   Capella )
• Of joys and pleasing pains  (   Capella )
• Oft have I vowed      (4 editions available)
• So light is love  (   Capella )
• Softly O! drop mine eyes  (   Capella )
• Stay, Corydon, thou swain  (   [ Capella] )
• Sweet honey sucking bees      (3 editions available)
• Sweet love, if thou wilt gain  (   Capella )
• The Lady Oriana  ( [ ] [ ] [ Capella] )
• There is a jewel  (   Capella )
• There, where I saw her lovely beauty painted  (   Capella )
• Thou art but young, thou say'st  (   Capella )
• Thus love commands  (   Capella )
• Thus saith my Cloris bright      (4 editions available)
• Unkind, O stay thy flying      (3 editions available)
• Weep, O mine eyes  (   Capella )
• Weep, weep mine eyes      (4 editions available)
• What needeth all this travail      (2 editions available)
• When Cloris heard  (   Capella )
• When shall my wretched life  (   Capella )
• Where most my thoughts  (   Capella )
• Ye restless thoughts  (   Capella )
• Ye that do live in pleasures      (3 editions available)
• Yet, sweet, take heed      (2 editions available)

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Publications

• The First Set of Madrigals for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (London, 1598)
• The Second Set of Madrigals for 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (London, 1609)
• The Triumphs of Oriana (London, 1601), one madrigal

External links

• Jeff Lee's Music Page - John Wilbye: a page with the complete texts of Wilbye's madrigals from The First Set of English Madrigals (London 1598)