Astrophil and Stella

Musical settings

  • Three of the eleven songs have settings for voice with bass and lute accompaniment in A Musical Banquet, 1610, published by Robert Dowland.  The eighth song, In a Grove Most Rich of Shade, was set by Charles Tessier. The sixth and tenth songs were set by William Byrd in Psalmes, Sonnets and Songs and Songs of sundrie natures, respectively. The ninth song, Goe my Flocke, and the tenth song, O Deere Life when shall it be, are anonymous settings. The second song, 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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