An English Songbook Author:Noah Greenberg Part songs and sacred music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance for one to six voices. Almost fifty vocal works from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries. Nine of the works are liturgical and include a 'Sanctus' by Henry IV and Thomas Tallis' lovely 'Agnus Dei' from a four-part mass. England's long-standing tradition of popular religi... more »ous lyric poetry is represented by such part songs of piety as Byrd's 'Susanna fayre' and Ravencroft's 'O Lord, turne not away' and 'Remember o thou man'. Taken from the dust cover of the book.« less