Some music available for download

English Music

• Songs from John Dowland's Book of Ayres:
  • Fine Knacks for Ladies
  • Flow not so Fast, ye Fountains
  • It was a time when Sillie Bees Could Speake
  • Go, Crystall Tears

  (These are based on Laura Conrad's edition: www.laymusic.org I have combined the separate parts into a vocal score, more familiar for modern singers.)

• Gibbons' Cries of London: Full Score, Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola 1, Viola 2, Cello, The Cries of London as MIDI
• Gibbons' Dainty Fine Bird
• Gibbons "The Silver Swan"
• John Taverner's "In Trouble and Adversity" for voices and viol consort
• John Ward's "Cor Mio" for five-part vocal ensemble

Early Italian Music

• Thomas Lupo's "Ardo si and Ardi et Gela" for five-part vocal ensemble
• Victoria's "O Magnum Mysterium" for four voices
• Cipriano da Rore's "Tu Piangi" in more familiar notation

Bach

• Bach's cantata No 82, Ich Habe Genug: Full Score, with continuo, Voice part, with oboe and keyboard, Solo oboe part, First violin part, Second violin part, Viola part, Cello part.
• Bach's Suite in B Minor
• The Six-Part Ricercar from Bach's Musical Offering

Mozart chamber music re-arranged for woodwinds

• Quartet K.421
• Quartet K.428 with alternate Clarinet in A part
• The "Hunt" Quartet K.458
• Quartet K.464 also with alternate Clarinet in A part.
• Quartet K.465
• Quintet K.516 or individual parts: Flute I,Flute II,Clarinet I,Clarinet II,Bassoon
• Sonata in B-Flat, K.570, arranged for Woodwind Quintet

Boccherini Divertimenti

• No 1 (G461)
• No 6 (G466)

Lieder

• Schubert
  • "Heidenröslein"
  • "An die Musik"
  • Schubert's "Die Schöne Müllerin"
• Schumann
  • "Widmung"
  • "Die Beiden Grenadiere."

These are in PDF format, and will require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view and print them. The sources are also available should you wish to have them, but you will need MusixTeX and/or GNU Lilypond to do anything.

A special: for those at Voices and Viols recently: see an alchemical demonstration where quicksilver is made to disappear in Aqua Fortis, producing the Red Lion of Fools. The resulting solution then deposits "silver" onto copper...

For members of the Amateur Chamber Music Society, you can search the library here.

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