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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).

A performance takes about 10 minutes. The poems are:

  1. "A Thanksgiving" (William Cornysh (1465–1523))
  2. "All in a Garden Green" (Thomas Howell (fl. 1568))
  3. "An Aside" (Anon.)
  4. "A Report Song" (Nicholas Breton (1542–1626))
  5. "The Sweet Season" (Richard Edwardes (1525–66))

References

Five Sixteenth-Century Poems Wikipedia