Bull, John
Period: Renaissance
Born: c. 1562 in Old Radnor, England
Died: Sunday, March 12, 1628 in Antwerp, Belgium
Nation of Origin: United Kingdom
Major Works:
Keyboard works:
The King's Hunt
Walsingham (theme and 30 variations)
Other Information:
Bull was a composer and a performer on the virginal. Some of his works were published in Parthenia (Greek for "Maidenhood"), a collection of keyboard works in 1611 that also included works of Byrd and Gibbons.
General Bibliography:
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
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group, December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc., January 2004, ISBN: 0195170679
Rutherford-Johnson, Tim, Kennedy, Michael, and Kennedy, Joyce The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 6th Edition, 2012, ISBN: 0199578109
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