Music in the Renaissance
by Gustave Reese
Period: Renaissance
Born: c. 1570 in Lancastrian, England
Died: c. 1614
Nation of Origin: United Kingdom
Major Works:
Madrigals:
Weep, o mine eyes
All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded
Other Information:
Bennet's year of death is extremely uncertain but it is likely he
died sometime after 1614 when six of his songs were published in
Briefe Discourse by Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1582 - c. 1633).
His madrigal, All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded, is number
4 in a collection of madrigals by 24 composers called The
Triumphs of Oriana created in 1601 by Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
in honor of Elizabeth I. Some of Bennet's works were reprinted in
The English Madrigal School by the British Musicologist E.
H. Fellowes (1870-1951).
General Bibliography:
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Reese, Gustave, Music in the Renaissance, W.W. Norton &
Company; November 1959, ISBN: 0393095304
Sachs, Curt, The Rise of Music in the Ancient World , W. W.
Norton & Company, 1943, ASIN: 0393097188
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
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