April is in my Mistres face by Thomas Morley (viol consort)

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Channel: My Life With Early Music · 2009 · Music

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Downloadable score:
http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/morley/April-is-in-my-mistress-face_Morley.pdf
played on 2 viols by Floris Jan van der Voort:
http://www.vandervoorthistoricalinstruments.com/

Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558  October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare.
more of this WIKI info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morley
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