Thomas Weelkes: Balletts and Madrigals To Five Voices: Mixed Choir

SATB choir - Early intermediate

SKU: GI.G-10911

Composed by Thomas Weelkes. Edited by Vance Acker. GIA Historical Music. Music Education. Octavo. 8 pages. GIA Publications #10911. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-10911).

English.

Weelkes is best known for both his Anglican Church music and secular vocal music (i.e., madrigals, balletts, and canzonets). His madrigals are known for having humorous or dramatic texts and for their expressive use of word painting, as well as for their use of chromaticism for emotional effect. “Cease, Sorrows Now” is one of the madrigals in Weelkes’ first publication, published in 1597, Madrigals to 3, 4, 5, & 6 Voyces.