Description
Alison, Richard: An Hour’s Recreation in Musicke (1606)
Ref
EM33
Categories
Choral Music
,
Collected Editions
,
The English Madrigalists
By
Richard Alison
Edited Edmund Fellowes. Revised Thurston Dart
Paperback
This interesting collection looks back to the ‘Winter’ of Byrd and Mundy in the conservative settings of such verse as
My prime of youth
(see EM35B); but it is also a contemporary record, with two madrigals celebrating the failure of Guy Fawkes’ Gunpowder Plot against James I.
Individual titles from this volume are available as Adobe PDF files…
