biography
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| (1557/8–1602)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Norwich, Norfolk, E England, UK. A pupil of William Byrd, he became organist at St Paul's Cathedral, and from 1592 was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal. He is best known for A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597), written in entertaining dialogue with the purpose of encouraging part-singing for pleasure; also for his volumes of madrigals and canzonets, which include such evergreen favourites as ‘Now is the month of maying’, ‘My bonny lass she smileth’, and ‘It was a lover and his lass’. He was compiler of the collection, in honour of Elizabeth I, called The Triumphes of Oriana (1603). |
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