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John Wilbye

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John Wilbye (7 March 1574 (baptized – September 1638), was an English madrigal composer. He was born at Brome in Norfolk, the son of a tanner, and received the patronage of the Cornwallis family. It is thought that he accompanied Elizabeth Cornwallis to Hengrave Hall near Bury St. Edmunds in around 1594 when she married Sir Thomas Kytson the Younger. A set of madrigals by him appeared in 1598 and a second in 1608, the two sets containing sixty-four pieces.

Top songs

  1. Draw on, Sweet Night
  2. Draw on sweet night
  3. The Second Set of Madrigals: Weep, Weep Mine Eyes
  4. Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
  5. The Lady Oriana
  6. Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers
  7. Adew sweet Amarillis
  8. Sweet honey sucking Bees: a. (The first Part)
  9. Weep, weep, mine eyes (Arr. The Dowland Project, Potter)
  10. Wilbye: The Second Set of Madrigals: No. 17, Sweet Honey Sucking Bees: Pt. 2
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  1. Weep, Weep, Mine Eyes
  2. Draw on sweet night: Draw on, sweet night
  3. Sweet honey sucking Bees: b. The second Part)
  4. O Wretched Man
  5. Weep, O Mine Eyes
  6. Weep, weep mine eyes
  7. Thus saith my Cloris bright
  8. Oft have I vowed
  9. Oft have I vowde
  10. Thou Art but Young
  11. Yee that doe live in pleasures
  12. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 31. Draw on sweet night
  13. Cruel, behold my heavy ending
  14. Lady, when I behold
  15. Sweet Honey-Sucking Bees / Yet, Sweet, Take Heed
  16. Sweet Love, if thou wilt gaine a Monarches glory
  17. Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me
  18. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 17. Sweet honey-sucking bees
  19. Wilbye: The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 11, Adew Sweet Amarillis
  20. Oft Have I Vowed - Instrumental
  21. When shall my wretched life
  22. Happy, O Happy He
  23. Sweet hony sucking Bees (The first Part)
  24. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 11. Thus saith my Cloris bright
  25. Wilbye: The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 15 Lady, Your Words Do Spite Me
  26. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 4. Weep, O mine eyes
  27. All Pleasure is of this Condition
  28. Sweet hony sucking Bees (The second Part)
  29. Down in a Valley / Hard Destinies
  30. Wilbye: The Second Set of Madrigales: No. 20, Oft Have I Vowed
  31. Wilbye: The Second Set of Madrigales: No. 27, O Wretched Man
  32. The Lady Oriana - Instrumental
  33. I Live, and Yet Methinks / There is a Jewel
  34. Wilbye: The First Set of Madrigals: No. 4, Weep, O Mine Eyes
  35. Wilbye: The First Set of English Madrigals: No. 24, Cruel, Behold My Heavy Ending
  36. I Love, Alas, Yet Am Not Loved
  37. Wilbye: The First Set of Madrigals: No. 10, Lady, When I Behold
  38. Wilbye: The Second Set of Madrigals: No. 15, As Matchless Beauty
  39. adieu sweet amarillis
  40. O What Shall I Do?
  41. There Where I Saw
  42. Love Not Me for Comely Grace
  43. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 10. Lady, when I behold
  44. Lady, when I behold the Roses
  45. Ye Restless Thoughts
  46. Where Most My Thoughts / Despiteful Thus
  47. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 18. Lady, your words do spite me
  48. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 26. Of joys and pleasing pains
  49. Weep weep, mine eyes
  50. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 18. Yet sweet, take heed
  51. Suite of Almands
  52. The Second Set of Madrigals: Weep, weep, mine eyes
  53. Ne reminiscaris
  54. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 30. Why dost thou shoot?
  55. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 19. Alas! what a wretched life
  56. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 29. Thou art but young, thou saye'st
  57. Madrigals, Book 1: Lady, when I beehold
  58. Of Joys and Pleasing Pains / My Throat is Sore
  59. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 24. Lady, when I behold
  60. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 27. My throat is sore
  61. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 13. Die hapless man
  62. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 32. Stay, Corydon, thou swain
  63. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 12. Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
  64. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 25. When shall my wretched life?
  65. First Set of English Madrigals (1598): 28. Cruel, behold my heavy ending
  66. Suite of 5 Galliards
  67. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 25. Ye that do live in pleasures
  68. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 30. Ah! Cannot sighs nor tears
  69. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 33. Softly, O softly drop my eyes
  70. As Matchless Beauty
  71. As Fair As Morn
  72. Sweet hony-sucking bees
  73. The Second Set of Madrigales: Sweet Hony Sucking Bees. The First Part
  74. The Second Set of Madrigales: Sweet Hony Sucking Bees. The Second Part
  75. Thyrsis And Milla
  76. Madrigals for Four Voices: Adieu Sweet Amarillis
  77. Second Set of Madrigals, 1609: 27. O wretched man
  78. Madrigals for Six Voices: Draw On, Sweet Night
  79. O what shall I doe
  80. Down in a Valley
  81. Sweet honey-sucking bees
  82. Ye that do live in pleasures plenty
  83. Lady your words do spite me
  84. The Second Set of Madrigals: No. 23. Weep, Weep Mine Eyes - Version from the British Museum, MS. Egerton 2971
  85. Adieu, sweet Amarillis (Wilbye)
  86. Second Set of Madrigals (1609): XXXI. Draw On Sweet Night
  87. Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sang
  88. First Set of Madrigals (1598): XI. Thus Saith My Cloris Bright
  89. Adew, Sweet Amarillis, madrigal
  90. The Second Set of Madrigales: Draw on, Sweet Night

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