English Church ComposersSampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882 - 179 páginas |
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admitted afterwards anthems published appointed organist bass became organist Blow born Boyce Boyce's collection boys Bull Burney called canon Cathedral Music chant Chapel Royal character choir chorister Christ Church Church music compositions Croft death degree died Doctor of Music edition England English Church composers English musicians expression father genius glees Greene harmony Hawkins Henry Purcell honour instrumental Italian Jeremiah Clark John Blow John Goss Jonathan Battishill King known labours London Lord madrigals Magdalen College master melody Morley motett musical art oratorio organ organist organist of St Orlando Gibbons Paul's Cathedral Pelham Humfrey performed Philip Hayes pieces place of organist printed in Boyce's probably Professor of Music Psalm published pupil resigned sacred music Services and Anthems singing songs style sung Tallis Thomas Mulliner Thomas Tallis Thomas Tomkins vicar-choral viols voices Voyces Weldon Westminster Abbey Windsor words writers written wrote
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Página 97 - Humphreys, lately returned from France, and is an absolute Monsieur, as full of form, and confidence, and vanity, and disparages everything, and everybody's skill but his own.
Página 20 - Dr. Tye was a peevish and humorsome man, especially in his later days, and sometimes playing on the organ in the Chapel of Qu : Eliz : which contained much music but little to delight the ear. She would send the Verger to tell him that he played out of tune, whereupon he sent word that her ears were out of tune...
Página 150 - Musica Antiqua, a selection of music of this and other countries from the commencement of the twelfth to the beginning of the eighteenth century, comprising some of the earliest and most curious motetts, madrigals, hymns, anthems, songs, lessons, and dance tunes ; some of them now first published from manuscripts and printed works of great rarity and value.
Página 4 - ... contra punctum. Probably contemporary with him was Thomas de Walsyngham, Prior of St. Albans, the author of a Tract on Music, in which he deprecates the " new character, of late introduced, called a crotchet, which would be of no use would musicians remember that beyond the minim no subdivision ought to be made." A statement in which he was etymologically correct, for there can be nothing smaller than the smallest (minimum). In the centuries long before, history records the names of Englishmen...
Página 102 - ... to the delights of a convivial hour. He was a man of blameless morals, and of a benevolent temper ; but was not so insensible of his own worth, as to be totally free from the imputation of pride.
Página 97 - The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy. And they say there are four or five of them that can do as much.
Página 38 - Songs of sundrie natures, some of gravitie, and others of myrth, fit for all companies and voyces. Lately made and composed into musick of 3, 4, 5 and 6 parts, and published for the delight of all such as take pleasure in the exercise of that art.
Página 97 - Grebus, the Frenchman, the King's master of the musick, how he understands nothing, nor can play on any instrument, and so cannot compose : and that he will give him a lift out of his place ; and that he and the King are mighty great...
Página 40 - The first sett of Italian Madrigalls Englished, not to the sense of the originall dittie, but after the affection of the Noate. By Thomas Watson, Gentleman. There are also heere inserted two excellent Madrigalls of Master William Byrds, composed after the Italian vaine, at the request of the sayd Thomas Watson.
Página 107 - ... answered not his wish, it was far from ambiguous, as it seemed to forbid both methods of destruction; and would have given unspeakable comfort to a mind less disorganised than his own. Being thus interrupted in his purpose, he returned, and mounting his horse, rode on to London, and in a short time shot himself.