English Songs Renaissance to Baroque : The Vocal Library

English Songs: Renaissance to Baroque is a low voice piano and vocal songbook from The Vocal Library, compiled and edited by Steven Stolen and Richard Walters. Created with student singers in mind, this Beginning/Intermediate Classical collection brings together English vocal repertoire from the Renaissance through the Baroque era for lessons, study, practice, and performance.

This collection contains 34 songs representing 17 composers, with historical information that adds context to the music. The piano and vocal format keeps accompaniment and vocal material together in one volume, making the collection useful for singers, voice teachers, accompanists, and anyone exploring English classical song. Selections spanning contrasting texts, moods, and musical periods offer opportunities to develop interpretation, phrasing, diction, and expressive singing while building familiarity with important early vocal repertoire.

Song List

As I Walked Forth One Summer Day * Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind * Come and Trip It * Diaphenia * Fain Would I Change That Note * Fair, If You Expect Admiring * Flow My Tears * Hark! the Echoing Air * Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow? * Here amid the Shady Woods * How Happy Art Thou * I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly * I'll Sail upon the Dog Star * If Music Be the Food of Love * In Sherwood Lived Stout Robin Hood * It Was a Lover and His Lass * Jack and Joan * Let Me Wander Not Unseen * My Lovely Celia * Nymphs and Shepherds * O Come, O Come, My Dearest * Pastime with Good Company * Rest Sweet Nymphs * The Silver Swan * Since First I Saw Your Face * Tell Me No More * Thou Soft Flowing Avon * Weep You No More, Sad Fountains * What If I Never Speed * When Daisies Pied * When Laura Smiles * Where E'er You Walk * Whither Runneth My Sweetheart? * Willow Song.

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