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Morley, Thomas: Madrigal for Christmas

choral sheets

Setting: Mixed Voices
Genre: Christmas music
Period: Renaissance
Length: 8 pages
Published: 2016
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item number: HL00153763
Other reference: HL00153763
Add a Renaissance touch to your holiday concerts! Madrigal for Christmas is fashioned after the ballettos of Italy which featured the popular fa la la refrains. In this piece, Morley uses a different nonsense refrain, lirum, lirum, which might be a sound effect imitating the strummed lute, a popular instrument from the Renaissance.

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