Music in the Renaissance
by Gustave Reese
Period: Renaissance
Born: 1543 in Lincolnshire, England
Died: Tuesday, July 4, 1623 in Stondon, England
Nation of Origin: United Kingdom
Major Works:
Wrote masses and other sacred works for the Church of England. His
keyboard music is published in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.
Other Information:
Some of his works were published in Parthenia (Greek for
"Maidenhood"), a collection of keyboard works in 1611 that also
included works of Bull and Gibbons.
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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