Welcome to the companion website for The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air, by Katherine R. Larson.
Click the links below to listen to fourteen pieces performed by solo soprano (the author) and lute (Lucas Harris)
Piece number | Piece title | Composer |
1 | “My father faine would have mee take a man that hath a beard” | Robert Jones |
2 | Psalm 51 | Anon. |
3 | Psalm 130 | Anon. |
4 | “Bright Aurelia” | Charles Coleman |
5 | “Go thy way” | Anon. |
6 | “If ever hapless woman had a cause” | John Bartlet |
7 | “Mrs. M. E. her Funerall teares for the death of her husband” | John Danyel |
8 | “Come my Lucatia” | Henry Lawes |
9 | “In vaine, faire Cloris” | Mary Dering |
10 | “Oh mee, the time is come to part” | Anon. |
11 | “Love grown proud” | John Wilson |
12 | Was I to blame” | Alfonso Ferrabosco |
13 | “Sweet Echo” | Henry Lawes |
14 | “Resound my voice” | John Attey |
No sample material is currently available for this title.