THE MANCHESTER WIND QUINTET. THE MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL MALE VOICE QUARTET
HERE is a group of Madrigals, beginning with one by the longest-lived of tho Tudor composers, William Byrd. who in a life of over eighty, years saw the budding, the flowering, and the decline of the Madrigal.
Byrd's song has a refrain supposed to be sung by a disappointed lover:-
Adieu love, adieu love, untrue love.
Your mind is light, soon lost for new love... Three days endured your love to me, And it was lost in other three.
Moray's madrigal is tho quaint experience of one who, walking 'round around about a wood,' 'heard a pretty, merry maid that long before had walked.' She was lamanting 'Hey ho, troly loly lo, heavy heart, my lovely lover hath disdained me.'
These are the words of Wilbye's madrigal:- As matchless beauty thee a Phoenix proves Eair Leonilla, so thy sour-sweet loves.
For when young Aeon's eye thy proud heart tames,
Thou diest in him, and livest in my flames.
Weelkes sings of the wooing of country swains in the morris dance, and contrasts with this pleasure the state of one who woos 'with tears and ne'er tho nearer,' who 'dies in grief and lives in fear.'
Fair Phyllis is one of a set of Madrigals published in 1599 by John Farmer , who described himself on the title page of his volume as 'practitioner in the art of Musieque.'
Quintets for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Horn: