Wake all the Dead, what ho! What ho! – Songs of Death & the Spirit World
1:00 PM Thursday, 29 June, Harkness Chapel
| Invocation: Ye gentle spirits of the air | Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) |
| – I – | |
| Wake all the dead (from The Law Against Lovers, 1662) |
Alphonso Marsh (1627 – 1681) |
| Cold and raw | Playford’s Dancing Master |
| Reading from The Dead Host’s Welcome | J. Fletcher, 1647 |
| His rest (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) | Giles Farnaby (1563 – 1640) |
| O death rock me asleep | Anonymous (16th century) |
| On the cold ground | Playford |
| When I am dead | John Wilson (1595 – 1673) |
| Packington’s Pound | Traditional |
| – II – | |
| Reading from Meditation XVII | John Donne (1573 – 1631) |
| 20 waies upon the bels | Thomas Robinson (c. 1600) |
| The Passing Bell | Matthew Locke (1622 – 1677) |
| The Ghost (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) | Willam Byrd (1543 – 1623) |
| And I’ll go to my love (from Windsor Drollery, 1671) |
Robert Smith |
| The Hare’s Maggott/The New Lord Phoppington | Playford |
| Like to the damaske rose | Henry Lawes (1596 – 1662) |
| – III – | |
| Reading: The little chirping birds. . . . | |
| Tourdion (MP3, 816 KB) | Anonymous French (16th century) |
| Moro de doglia | Anonymous Italian (16th century) |
| Sick, sick and very sick (MP3, 2.68 MB) | Anonymous English (16th century) |
| O tiente alora | Anonymous Italian (16th century) |
| Me, me and none but me | John Dowland (1563 – 1626) |
| If she forsake me | Thomas Campion (1567 – 1620) |
| – IV – | |
| The Night Watch (MP3, 1.23 MB) | Antony Holborne (ca. 1548 – 1602) |
| So when the glit’ring Queen of Night (from The Yorkshire-Feast-Song) |
Henry Purcell |
| Hither this way (MP3, 1.89 MB) | Henry Purcell |
| The Witches’ Dance/Witches’ Song (from Macbeth) |
Anon./Matthew Locke (1622 – 1677) |
| Dialogue: “Charon, gentle Charon” | William Lawes (1602 – 1645)) |