Five Sixteenth-Century Poems

Five Sixteenth-Century Poems is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1938 by John Ireland (18791962).

A performance takes about 10 minutes. The poems are:

1. "A Thanksgiving" (William Cornysh (14651523))
2. "All in a Garden Green" (Thomas Howell ())
3. "An Aside" (Anon.)
4. "A Report Song" (Nicholas Breton (15421626))
5. "The Sweet Season" (Richard Edwardes (152566))

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