English Church ComposersScribner and Welford, 1882 - 179 pages |
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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 plain-song 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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Page 14 - Such priests as have the addition of Sir before their Christian name were men not graduated in the university, being in orders, but not in degrees; whilst others entituled masters had commenced in the arts.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 148 - 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.
Page 18 - 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...
Page 36 - ... a thousand that hath it, and in many that excellent gift is lost, because they want Art to express Nature.
Page 100 - ... 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.
Page 35 - ... other being Songs very rare and newly composed, are heere published, for the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke : By William Byrd, one of the Gent.
Page 36 - Nature. 7. There is not any Musicke of Instruments whatsoever, comparable to that which is made of the voyces of Men, where the voyces are good, and the same well sorted and ordered.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 57 - Anglicance, or music dedicated to the honour and service of God and to the use of Cathedrals and other churches of England, especially of the Chapel Royal of King Charles I., and of many scattered services and anthems still to be found in cathedral books.