It Was a Lover and His Lass (Morley, Thomas)

Composition Year	1600 in Ayres or Little Short Songs, Book 1 (London: W.Barley), no.6
Genre Categories	Songs; For voice, lute, viol; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring the soprano voice; Scores featuring the lute; Scores featuring the viol; For voices with solo instruments; English language

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Work Title	It Was a Lover and His Lass
Alternative. Title
Composer	Morley, Thomas
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	ITM 79
Key	G major
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1600 in Ayres or Little Short Songs, Book 1 (London: W.Barley), no.6
Librettist	William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Renaissance
Piece Style	Renaissance
Instrumentation	soprano, lute, bass viol

This song appears in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" (Act V, Scene 3), but the relationship of Morley's setting to the play is unclear.