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Madrigals

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• Sämmtliche Werke. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894), by Orlando di Lasso, Adolf Sandberger, and Fr. X. Haberl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English madrigal verse, 1588-1632 (The Clarendon Press, 1920), by Edmund Horace Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• English madrigals in the time of Shakespeare (J. M. Dent & co., 1899), by Frederick Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musa madrigalesca; or, A collection of madrigals, ballets, roundelays, etc., chiefly of the Elizabethan age; with remarks and annotations. By Thomas Oliphant. (Calkin and Budd, 1837), by Thomas Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tutte le opere di Claudio Monteverdi. (Universal Edition, 1960), by Claudio Monteverdi and Gian Francesco Malipiero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Musica transalpina ... The second booke of madrigalles, to 5 & 6 voices: (Printed by Thomas Este, 1597), by Nicholas Yonge and Thomas East (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novello's glee-hive : a collection of popular glees and madrigals in vocal score, with ad lib. accompaniment for the pianoforte. (Novello, Ewer;, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novello's part-song book. (Second series.) A collection of four-part songs and madrigals by modern composers. (Novello, Ewer & co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Weltliche Werke. I. (Artaria & Co.;, 1907), by Heinrich Isaac and Johannes Wolf (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Drie madrigalen (Louis Roothaan, 1873), by Cornelis Schuyt, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, and Robert Eitner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zesstemmige madrigalen (De Algemeene Muziekhandel, Stumpff & Koning ;, 1901), by Jan Tollius and Max Seiffert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English madrigal verse, 1588-1632 (Clarendon press, 1929), by Edmund Horace Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ausgewählte Madrigale und mehrstimmige Gesänge (Breitkopf & Härtel, in the 1900s), by William Barclay Squire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old English love songs and madrigals. (P. Allan, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El libro de los madrigales (Sociedad de edición y librería franco americana, s.a., 1929), by Efrén N. Mata (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La guirlande de Julie : augmentée de Documents nouveaux. (Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1875), by Octave Uzanne (page images at HathiTrust)
• La guirlande de Julie : augmentée de pièces nouvelles (Sansot, 1907), by Charles de Sainte-Maure Montausier and Adolphe van Bever (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Glee-hive. (Novello, 1851), by Novello & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Now spring in all her glory : quartet, or chorus for mixed voices (G. Schirmer, 1893), by Jacob Arcadelt and H. W. Nicholl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of sundry natures, 1589 (Joseph Williams ;, 1892), by William Byrd and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica transalpina. (J. Williams, 1894), by Alfonso Ferrabosco and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sämtliche Werke. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1894), by Orlando di Lasso, Adolf Sandberger, and Fr. X. Haberl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals by English composers of the close of the fifteenth century (Novello, Ewer and Co., 1893), by C. F. Abdy Williams, Charles William Pearce, and Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fantastic spirits. (J. Williams, 1895), by Thomas Weelkes and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'arte musicale in Italia. : Pubblicazione nazionale delle più importanti opere musicali italiane dal secolo XIV al XVIII (G. Ricordi & C., 1897), by Luigi Torchi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select madrigals and part-songs = Ausgewählte Madrigale und mehrstimmige Gesänge : by composers of the 16th and 17th centuries. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910), by William Barclay Squire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Euterpe, a collection of madrigals and other music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (Alexander Moring, Ltd., 1905), by Charles Kennedy Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Italianische Madrigale (Breitkopf & Hartel, 1890), by Heinrich Schutz, Claudio Monteverdi, and Philipp Spitta (page images at HathiTrust)
• La musa madrigalesca, or, A collection of madrigals, ballets, roundelays, etc. : chiefly of the Elizabethan age (Calkin and Budd, 1837), by Thomas Oliphant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il terzo libro de madrigali a cinque voci ([Wien] : Universal Edition, [1926?], 1926), by Claudio Monteverdi and Gian Francesco Malipiero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il quinto libro de madrigali a cinque voci ([Wien] : Universal Edition, [1926?], 1926), by Claudio Monteverdi and Gian Francesco Malipiero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In these delightful, pleasant groves : four-part madrigal for mixed voices (a cappella) (E. C. Schirmer, 1929), by Henry Purcell and H. Clough-Leighter (page images at HathiTrust)
• La guirlande de Julie: augmentée de documents nouveaux (in French), ed. by Octave Uzanne, contrib. by Charles de Sainte-Maure Montausier (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bibliographical account of the musica and poetical works published in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, under the titles of madrigals, ballets, ayres, canzonets, etc., etc. (J. R. Smith, 1847), by Edward F. Rimbault (page images at HathiTrust)

• Madrigals, 1st set (In London : Printed by Thomas Este, 1604), by Michael East (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Musicke of sundrie kindes set forth in two bookes. The first whereof are, aries [sic] for 4. voices to the lute, orphorion, or basse. viol, with a dialogue for two voices, and two basse viols in parts, tunde the lute way. The second are pauens, galiards, almaines, toies, igges, thumpes and such like, for two basse-viols, the lierway, so made as the greatest number may serue to play alone, very easie to be performde. Composed by Thomas Ford. (Imprinted at London : By Iohn Windet at [sic] the assignes of William Barley and are to be sold by Iohn Brovvne in Saint Dunstons churchyard in Fleetstreet, 1607), by Thomas Ford (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 14.Ayres in tabletorie to the lute expressed with two voyces and the base violl or the voice & lute only. 6.more to 4.voyces and in tabletorie. And 8.madrigalles to 5.voyces By Michaell Cavendish Gentleman (At London : Printed by Peter Short, on bredstreet hill at the signe of the Starre, 1598), by Michael Cavendish (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Das deutsche madrigal : geschichte seiner entwickelung bis in die mitte des XVIII. jahrhunderts (E. Felber, 1898), by Karl Vossler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English madrigal. (Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1925), by Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von den Madrigalen einer schönen und zur Musik bequemesten Art Verse, wie sie nach der italianer Manier in unserer deutschen Sprache auszuarbeiten, nebenst etlichen Exempeln. (Verlegts C. Kirchner; Gedruckt bey J. Wittigaun, 1653), by Kaspar Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die anfänge der chromatik im italienischen madrigal des XVI. jahrhunderts. Ein beitrag zur geschichte des madrigals. (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1902), by Theodor Kroyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Entstehung des Madrigals im 16. Jahrh. ... (P. Fezzi, 1908), by Gaetano Cesari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Anfänge der Chromatik im italienischen Madrigal des XVI. Jahrhunderts; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Madrigals (Breitkopf & Härtel, 1902), by Theodor Kroyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An examination into the derivation, etymology, and definition of the word "madrigale". (Printed by M. Mason, 1852), by Richard Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English madrigal school : a guide to its practical use (Stainer & Bell, 1920), by Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Von den Madrigalen, einer schönen und zur Musik beqvemesten Art Verse, wie sie nach der Italianer Manier in unserer Deutschen Sprache auszuarbeiten, nebst etlichen Exempeln. (Ch. Kirchner, 1653), by Kaspar Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die englischen madrigalisten William Byrd, Thomas Morley and John Dowland. (Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des weltlichen chorliedes und dessen pflege in England) (Druck von L. Seidel, 1901), by Oscar Becker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Els madrigals i la missa de difunts (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 1921), by Joan Brudieu, Higini Anglès, and Felipe Pedrell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Els Madrigals i la Missa de difunts d'En Brudieu (Barcelona : Institut d'estudis catalans, 1921., 1921), by Joan Brudieu, Higini Anglès, and Felipe Pedrell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The First Set of English Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 Voices (London: Thomas Fiste, 1598), by John Wilbye (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• A Briefe Discourse of the True (But Neglected) Use of Charact'ring the Degrees, by Thomas Ravenscroft (HTML and page images at pbm.com)
• Musica transalpina ... Madrigales translated of foure, fiuve and sixe parts, chosen out of diuers excellent authorsvvith the first and second part of La verginella, made by Maister Byrd vpon tvvo stanz's of Ariosto, and brought to speake English vvith the rest. (T. East, the assigné of W. Bryd, 1588), by Nicholas Yonge, William Byrd, and Thomas East (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Boston glee book, consisting of an extensive collection of glees, madrigals, and rounds; selected from the works of the most admired composers. Together with many new pieces from the German, arranged expressly for this work. (J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, and G. W. Palmer & Co., 1839), by Lowell Mason and George James Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• An hour's recreation in music (published in 1606) (Stainer & Bell, 1924), by Richard Alison (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals (published in 1604) (Stainer & Bell, 1922), by Thomas Bateson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second set of madrigals (published in 1618) (Stainer & Bell, 1922), by Thomas Bateson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals to four voices (published in 1599) A madrigal (Stainer and Bell, 1922), by John Bennet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Psalms, songs, and sonnets, some solemn, others joyful. To 3, 4, 5, and 6 parts, published in 1611. A madrigal included by (Stainer and Bell, 1920), by William Byrd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Psalms, sonnets, and songs of sadness and piety, to five parts (published in 1588) Two madrigals (Stainer and Bell, 1920), by William Byrd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Michael Cavendish. Madrigals to 5. voices (published in 1598) A madrigal (Stainer and Bell, ltd., 1924), by Michael Cavendish, Richard Edwards, William Holborne, and Thomas Greaves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals to 3, 4, and 5 parts, published in 1604. (Stainer and Bell, 1923), by Michael East (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals to 3. 4. and 5. parts (published in 1606) A madrigal (Stainer and Bell, ltd., 1923), by Michael East (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals contained in The third set of books, published in 1610 [and] madrigals contained in The fourth set of books, published in 1619. (Stainer and Bell, 1923), by Michael East (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals to four voices (published in 1599) A madrigal (Stainer and Bell, ltd., 1914), by John Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals and motets of five parts (published in 1612) (Stainer and Bell, 1914), by Orlando Gibbons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Robert Jones. The first set of madrigals of 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. parts (published in 1607) (Stainer and Bell, ltd., 1924), by Robert Jones and John Mundy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals to 4. 5. and 6. voices (published in 1597) A madrigal (Stainer and Bell, 1922), by George Kirbye, Edmund Spenser, and Philip Sidney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Canzonets or little short airs to five and six voices (published in 1597) Two madrigals (included by Morley in the Triumphs of Oriana; published in 1601) (Stainer and Bell, 1913), by Thomas Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First book of madrigals to four voices (published in 1594, and re-printed in 1600) Two canzonets to four voices (included by Morley in his Italian collection; published in 1597) (Stainer and Bell, 1913), by Thomas Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals. The triumphs of Oriana, to 5. and 6. voices. (Stainer & Bell, Ltd., 1923), by Thomas Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals and pastorals of 3. 4. and 5. parts (published in 1614) (Stainer & Bell, 1923), by Francis Pilkington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second set of madrigals and pastorals of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (published in 1624) (Stainer and Bell, 1923), by Francis Pilkington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Songs of divers airs and natures (published in 1619) (Stainer and Bell, 1924), by Thomas Vautor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts (published in 1613) (Stainer and Bell, 1922), by John Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (published in 1597) (Stainer and Bell, 1916), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Airs; or Fantastic spirits to three voices (published in 1608) A madrigal included by Morley in the "Triumphs of Oriana," published in 1601. Transcribed, scored, and edited by Edmund Horace Fellowes. (Stainer and Bell, 1916), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ballets and madrigals to five voices (published in 1598; re-printed in 1608) (Stainer and Bell, Ltd., 1916), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals of five parts (published in 1600) (Stainer and Bell, 1916), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals of six parts (published in 1600) (Stainer and Bell, 1916), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals to 3. 4. 5. and 6 voices (published in 1598) Madrigal (Stainer and Bell, 1914), by John Wilbye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second set of madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (published in 1609) (Stainer and Bell, 1914), by John Wilbye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Euterpe : a collection of madrigals and other music of the 16th and 17th centuries (Published by the Oriana Madrigal Society :, 1905), by Janet Dodge, G. E. P. Arkwright, J. A. Fuller-Maitland, Charles Kennedy Scott, and Oriana Madrigal Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals to 3,4, and 5 parts published in 1604. (Stainer and Bell, 1923), by Michael East (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigales : The Triumphes of Oriana : to 5. and 6. voices (Performers' Facsimiles, 1992), by Thomas Morely (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals of 5. and 6. parts, apt for the viols and voices (Performers' Facsimiles, 1999), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English madrigal school (Stainer, 1922), by Edmund Horace Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ballets and madrigals to five voices (published in 1598; reprinted in 1608) (Stainer and Bell, 1921), by Thomas Weelkes and Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals of five parts (published in 1613) (Stainer and Bell, 1922), by Henry Lichfild (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second set of madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (published in 1609). (Stainer and Bell, 1920), by John Wilbye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals and motets of five parts (published in 1612) (Stainer and Bell, 1921), by Orlando Gibbons (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Songs, madrigals and sonnets. A gathering of some of the most pleasant flowers of old English poetry. (Longman, Brown, Green, and co., 1849), by Joseph Cundall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica transalpina. (J. Williams, 1894), by Alfonso Ferrabosco and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Musica transalpina. (J. Williams, 1894), by Alfonso Ferrabosco and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six madrigals to four voices. (Joseph Williams;, 1891), by George Kirbye and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve madrigals to five voices. (Joseph Williams;, 1891), by George Kirbye and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six madrigals : to six voices (J. Williams, 1892), by George Kirbye and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Madrigals by English composers of the close of the fifteenth century (Novello, Ewer and Co., 1893), by C. F. Abdy Williams, Charles William Pearce, and Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fantastic spirits. (J. Williams, 1895), by Thomas Weelkes and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight ballets and madrigals, 1598 (Joseph Williams ;, 1895), by Thomas Weelkes and G. E. P. Arkwright (page images at HathiTrust)
• A briefe discovrse of the true (but neglected) vse of charact'ring the degrees, by their perfection, imperfection, and diminution in measurable musike, against the common practise and custome of these times. Examples whereof are exprest in the harmony of 4. voyces, concerning the pleasure of 5. vsuall recreations: 1 hunting, 2 hawking, 3 dauncing, 4 drinking, 5 enamouring. (Printed by E. Allde for T. Adams, 1614), by Thomas Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Edward Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight [i.e. 24] ballets and madrigals (J. Williams, 1895), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Euterpe : a collection of madrigals and other English vocal music of the 16th & 17th centuries (Oriana Madrigal Society ;, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Balletts and madrigals : to five voices (published in 1598, reprinted in 1608) (Stainer & Bell, 1921), by Thomas Weelkes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals : to four voices (published in 1599) (Stainer & Bell, 1914), by John Farmer and John Farmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First set of madrigals : to 3. 4. 5. and 6 voices (published in 1598) (Stainer & Bell, 1914), by John Wilbye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First book of madrigals to four voices : (published in 1594, and reprinted in 1600) ; Two canzonets to four voices : (included by Morley in his Italien collection; published in 1959) (Stainer and Bell, 1921), by Thomas Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigal; part song for mixed voices [words by] Thomas Weelkes ... (The Boston Music Co., 1913), by George Balch Nevin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canzonets, or little short airs to five and six voices : (published in 1597) ; Two madrigals (included by Morley in the Triumphs of Oriana : published in 1601) (Stainer and Bell, 1921), by Thomas Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Second set of madrigals to 3, 4, 5, and 6 voices (Stainer and Bell, 1920), by John Wilbye and Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals of six parts (published in 1600) (Stainer and Bell, ltd., 1921), by Thomas Weelkes and Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Madrigals : to four voices (published in 1599) (Stainer & Bell, 1922), by John Bennet and John Bennet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Though Amaryllis dance (Stainer & Bell, 1920), by William Byrd and Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English Madrigal school : a selection of works by various composers (Stainer & Bell, 1925), by Edmund H. Fellowes (page images at HathiTrust)

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