The Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (Robert Jones)

General Information

Title: The Second Booke of Songs and Ayres, set out to the Lute, the base Violl the playne way, or the Base by tableture after the leero fashion.
Composer: Robert Jones

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB or Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: English
Instruments: Lute, orpharion, bass-viol, or a cappella

Publication date and place: 1601 in London.
'Printed by P.S. for Mathew Selman by the assent of Thomas Morley, and are to be sold at the inner temple gate' Description: A collection of 21 songs in four parts, with lute tablature.

List of works

Love wing'd my hopes My love bound me with a kisse O how my thoughts doe beat me Dreames and Imaginations Mee thought this other night Who so is tide Fie fie Beautie stands further Now what is love Loves God is a boy Over these brookes

Whither runneth my sweet heart Once did I love Faire women Daintie darling My love is neither yoong nor old Love is a bable Arise Did ever man To sigh and to be sad Come sorrow come

Works at CPDL

No works at CPDL

Copies

British Library, London, shelfmark K.9.a.17 [bound with the first book]

Editions

Fellowes, E.H. ed., 1926, Seconde Booke of Ayres. 1601, London: Stainer & Bell [music, volume 5 in 'The English School of Lutenist Song Writers', second series]
Greer, David ed., 1971, The Seconde Booke of Songes or Ayres…, London: Scolar Press [facsimile]
University Microfilms Inc., 1959, The Seconde Booke of Songes or Ayres…, Ann Arbor, Michigan [microfilm - reel 802 of the Early English Books series]

References

Pollard, A.W. and Redgrave, G.R., 1986, A short-title catalogue…, 2nd edition, London: Bibliographical Society, no. 14733
RISM A/I/4 J642

External links

• Texts of five of Jones' publications, including 'The Seconde Booke of Songes or Ayres', with some midi files (copyright)