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As You Like It
A comedy by Shakespeare, first printed in the Folio of 1623, registered 1600 and probably written 1599–1600. Shakespeare's chief source was Lodge's Rosalynde.Frederick has usurped the dominions of ...
ballett
A form of madrigal orig. so called because the performers also danced to the tune. Thought to have been invented by the It. 16th‐cent. composer Gastoldi who in 1591 pubd. balletti a cinque voci with ...
broken music
Two meanings were possible: disordered music, or music with divisions. Shakespeare plays with the expression in Henry V 5.2.241 and Troilus and Cressida 3.1.49. The later term ‘broken consort’ (not ...
English music
The Old Hall manuscript, the Trent Codices, and the works of John Dunstaple and Lionel Power all suggest that the early fifteenth century was a period of great activity in ...
Giovanni Battista Mosto
(c.1550–1596),Italian composer and instrumentalist, who studied with Claudio Merulo and played cornett and trombone at the Munich court. He became maestro di cappella at Padua Cathedral in 1580 and ...
Giovanni Croce
(b Chioggia, c.1558; d Venice, 1609).It. composer and priest. Choirmaster St Mark's, Venice, from 1603, having been deputy for 12 years. Wrote masses and motets (pubd. in Venice between 1594 and ...
Giovanni Ferretti
(b c.1540; d after 1609).It. composer. Choirmaster Ancona Cath., 1575–9, at Gemona 1586–8, and at Santa Casa, Loreto, 1580–2 and 1596–1603. His ‘canzoni alla napolitana’ for 5 vv., of which he pubd. ...
Heinrich Glarean
(1488–1563),Swiss music theorist, geographer, humanist, and poet who studied philosophy, theology, mathematics, and music at Cologne University. He went to Basel (where he met and was admired by ...
It was a lover and his lass
Sung by two pages in As You Like It 5.3.15; composed by Thomas Morley and published in 1600, the same year as the first performance of the play. If the ...
John Redford
(d London, Oct. or Nov. 1547).English church musician, composer, and dramatist. He was a vicar-choral at St Paul's Cathedral, London, in the 1530s and 40s, and latterly Master of ...
John Wilbye
(1574–1638),English composer, with Weelkes, the most important of the English madrigalists who followed the lead given by Morley in 1593 and 1594. He published two sets of madrigals (1598, 1609) and ...
madrigal
(It. madrigale; orig. matricale—pastoral in the mother‐tongue).Vocal comp., of It. origin, for several vv., usually unacc. but sometimes with instr. acc. Texts usually secular (amorous, satirical, or ...
O mistress mine
Sung by Feste in Twelfth Night 2.3.38. Much debate has taken place over whether the popular tune of the same title arranged by Thomas Morley in The First Book of ...
Oriana
A name frequently applied by poets to Elizabeth I; in the medieval Spanish or Portuguese romance Amadis of Gaul, the princess of Britain with whom the hero Amadis is in love is named Oriana.
Richard Pygott
(fl. early 16th cent.).Eng. composer. Trained choristers in Wolsey's chapel choir 1517–29. Gentleman of Chapel Royal, 1524–53. Wrote mainly church mus.
Thomas East
(b c.1550; d London, 1608).London mus. publisher. Issued Byrd's psalms, sonnets, and songs (1588), works by other madrigalists (Morley, Mundy, and Wilbye), and 4‐part settings of psalms (1592). ...
Thomas Tomkins
(1572–1656)Welsh composer, taught by William Byrd. A book of his madrigals was published in 1622; his sacred works appeared as Musica Deo Sacra (1668). He also annotated some important music ...
Thomas Weelkes
(?1576–1623),English composer. With Wilbye, he was the most important of the English madrigalists who followed the lead given by Morley in 1593 and 1594. He published several volumes of madrigals and ...
Triumphs of Oriana
Coll. of Eng. madrigals in 5 and 6 parts by various composers, ed. by Morley in honour of Elizabeth I and dated 1601 but issued only after her death in 1603. Modelled on It. Trionfo di Dori 1592. In ...
William Byrd
(b probably Lincoln, 1543; d Stondon Massey, Essex, 1623).Eng. composer. Org., Lincoln Cath., 1563. From 1572 hon. org. Chapel Royal jointly with Tallis. In 1575 he and Tallis jointly pubd. a coll. ...
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