Morley's Canzonets for Two Voyces

These are some of the most popular duets from the Renaissance era. If you like to sing or play with other people, these are a good place to start exploring the world of Renaissance Polyphony. Morley was famous not only as a composer and performer, but also as a music teacher. He wrote the Music for Dummies of his day. (A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Musicke)

For recorder players, almost all of them fit well on C instruments, in most cases two equal instruments (either sopranos or tenors); or in a few cases a soprano and a lower instrument, either Alto or Tenor.

They are available in 2 spiral-bound partbooks from the Serpent Publications store. at lulu.com. Both music and words have been set in large, easy-to-read type.

Here's a sample page:

Or, you can download the pdf files (3155792 bytes),
the ABC files (32724 bytes),
the MIDI files (33066 bytes),
or the TeX, eps, and lilypond sources (1057353 bytes).

Here's the Preface, where I explain why I'm interested in doing this.

Here's the Foreward which John Tyson was kind enough to write for it.

Here are the editorial notes that explain what I did.

And here's what I think is the plot.

Last modified: 2009-03-23 11:43, 2009
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Morley's Canzonets for Two Voyces

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