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With reproduction of original t.-p. and dedication.

Includes piano reduction for rehearsal only.

Composed in honor of Queen Elizabeth, frequently called "the peerless Oriana"

The English madrigal school ; v. 32

Songs of five voices: Hence stars! too dim of light East) With angel's face (Norcome) Lightly she whipped o'er the dales (Mundy) Long live fair Oriana (Hark did you ever hear?) (E. Gibbons) All creatures now (Bennet) Fair Oriana, beauty's queen (Hilton) The nymphs and shepherds danced (Marson) Calm was the air (Carlton) Thus Bonny-boots the birth-day (Holmes) Sing, shepherds all (Nicolson) The fauns and satyrs tripping (Tomkins) Come, gentle swains (Cavendish) With wreaths of rose and laurel (Cobbold) Arise, awake, awake (Morley)

Songs of six voices: Fair nymph I heard one telling (Farmer) The lady Oriana (Wilbye) Hark! did ye ever hear? (Hunt) As Vesta was from Latmos (Weelkes) Fair Orian, in the morn (Milton) Round about her charret (E. Gibbons) With angel's face [or] Bright Phoebus greets (Kirbye) Fair Oriana seeming to wink (Jones) Fair Cytherea presents her doves (Lisley) Hard by a crystal fountain (Morley) Come, blessed bird (Johnson)

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 > Songs and music.