I taught a class at King’s College 2016 on Elizabethan Music. These are the songs I used as examples.
| Song | Composer | Year | Album | Artist | Description |
| Vigilate | William Byrd | 1589 | English Renaissance | King’s Singers | Motet for 5 voices, from Cantiones Sacrae. |
| Browning My Dear | Clement Woodcock | 1574 | Elizabethan Consort Music, 1558-1603 | Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall | Instrumental, string consort |
| Have I Found Her | Francis Pilkington | 1613 | All At Once Well Met: English Madrigals | King’s Singers | Madrigal |
| It fell on a summer’s day | Dr. Thomas Campion, lyrics; Philip Rosseter, music | 1601 | Campion: Elizabethan Songs | Drew Minter countertenor – Paul O’Dette lute | Voice and lute, bawdy song. From “A Book of Ayres”. |
| Tan tara ran tara cries Mars own bloody rapier | Thomas Weelkes | 1608 | Waytes: English Music for a Renaissance Band | Piffaro | Shawms and sackbut, originally a madrigal for 3 voices |
| All as a sea | William Byrd | 1588 | William Byrd: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs, 1588 | Anthony Rooley, The Consort of Musicke | Voice and string consort |
| April is in My Mistress’ Face | Thomas Morley | 1594 | The English Lute Song | Ron McFarlane Lute; Julianne Baird Soprano | Madrigal, Voice and lute |
| If ye love me | Thomas Tallis | 1560 | The Tallis Scholars sing Thomas Tallis | The Tallis Scholars | Anthem, 4 part acapella, text from John 14: 15-17 (KJV) |