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     (3 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)