Convivium Musicum Choir for Renaissance Music

David Hodgkins, Music Director

July 1990: Aires, Songes, and Madrigalls: Vocal Music of Dowland, Wilbye, and others


Friday, July 20, 1990	8 PM
Cambridge Friends Meeting House
Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA


I.  John Dowland, Ayres for four voices:

What poor astronomers are they  (Book 3, 1603)	John Dowland
					(1523 - 1626)

Love stood amaz'd (Book 3, 1603)			Dowland

What if I never speed? (Book 3, 1603)		Dowland

In this trembling shadow (A Pilgrim's Solace, 1612)	Dowland

Me, me, and none but me (Book 3, 1603)		Dowland


II. Madrigals, sung by small vocal ensembles:

Three virgin nymphs				Thomas Weelkes
					(c. 1575 - 1623)

April is in my mistress' face			Thomas Morley
					(1557 - c. 1602)

Weep, o mine eyes				John Wilbye
					(1574 - 1638)

Fair Phyllis I saw				John Farmer
					(c. 1565 - c. 1605)

- Intermission - 

III.  Songs to the lute and viol:

Dainty fine bird (1612)				Orlando Gibbons
Carol Marton, solo voice			(1583 - 1625)

If my complaints (Book 1, 1597)			Dowland

Come again, sweet love doth now invite (Book 1)	Dowland

Alas, fair face (1605)				Francis Pilkington
					(c. 1560 - 1638)

It fell on a summer's day (1601)			Thomas Campion
David Hodgkins, solo voice			(1567 - 1620)

IV.  Madrigals (full choir)

Adieu, sweet Amaryllis	a 4 (1st Book, 1598)		Wilbye

Draw on, sweet night a 6 (2nd Book, 1609)		Wilbye

This sweet and merry month of May a 6 (1590)		William Byrd
					(1543 - 1623)

Phyllis, I fain would die now a 7 (1595)		Morley