Five Sixteenth-Century Poems
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Five Sixteenth-Century Poems is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1938 by John Ireland (1879–1962).[1]
A performance takes about 10 minutes.[2] The poems are:[3]
- "A Thanksgiving" (William Cornysh (1465–1523)) [4]
- "All in a Garden Green" (Thomas Howell (fl. 1568))
- "An Aside" (Anon.)
- "A Report Song" (Nicholas Breton (1542–1626))
- "The Sweet Season" (Richard Edwardes (1525–66))
