Astrophil and Stella

Musical settings

  • Three of the ten sonnets have settings for voice with bass and lute accompaniment in A Musical Banquet, 1610, published by Robert Dowland.  The eighth sonnet, In a Grove Most Rich of Shade, is set by Charles Tessier.  The ninth sonnet, Goe my Flocke, and the tenth sonnet, O Deere Life when shall it be, are anonymous settings. The second sonnet, Have I caught my Heavenly Jewel, was set anonymously for lute and voice in British Library Add. MS 15117, c.1614-1630.

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