JohnWilbye, who never married, writes of nothing but love; he is the most perfect artist of the school.
Kerman pays tribute to 'the seriousness of his approach, the sensitivity of his grasp of poetry and language, the polish of his style and the subtlety of his musical ideas and their treatment', and compares him to Marenzio.
Wilbye knew better, and followed Lady Rivers to Colchester, where he had a room of his own in the 'great brick house'--still there--opposite the west end of Holy Trinity church.
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JohnWilbye (* 1574; † 1638) war ein englischer Komponist der Renaissance.
Wilbye war seit 1598 Musiker im Haus des Grafen Thomes Kytson und seiner Familie auf Schloss Hengrave Hall in Suffolk.
Wilbye gilt als einer der herausragenden Komponisten seiner Zeit in England.
Wilbye was born at Diss, Norfolk, the son of a well-to-do tanner, who was evidently himself something of a musician, since he bequeathed his lute to his son.
When Lady Kytson died Wilbye went to live at the house of her daughter, Lady Rivers of Colchester, and there he remained until his death.
Wilbye's output of composition was not great, but he is reckoned the finest English madrigalist, excelling especially in the more serious style (by which he is to-day, as it happens, less known).
A set of madrigals by him appeared in 1598 and a second in 1608, the two sets containing sixty-four pieces; and from a few contributions known to have been made by him to other contemporary sets, we can infer that he was alive in 1614.
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JohnWilbye - Biography, partial discography, and links to related composers of early music and historical background complementing the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
JohnWilbye's First Set of EnglishMadrigals - Copies of lyrics printed by Thomas Este in 1598.
Wilbye, John (1574 - 1638), United Kingdom - Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical essays from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
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JohnWilbye (1574-1638): Brief biographical sketch, comments on madrigals, and Naxos discography.
JohnWilbye's First Set of EnglishMadrigals: Copies of lyrics printed by Thomas Este in 1598.
JohnWilbye: Biography, partial discography, and links to related composers of early music and historical background complementing the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program.
The English madrigalist Wilbye spent the greater part of his life in the service of the Kytson family at Hengrave Hall near Bury St. Edmunds.
Wilbye followed the example of Thomas Morley as a composer of madrigals, publishing collections of his work in 1598 and 1609 and contributing one madrigal to the 1601 collection in honour of Queen Elizabeth, The Triumphs of Oriana, the six-voice The Lady Oriana.
Well known madrigals by Wilbye include Sweet hony sucking bees, Weep O mine eyes and Happy, O happy he.
JohnWilbye, born in Diss, Norfolk in 1574, the son of a tanner.
When his neighbour, the daughter of Cornwallis married Sir Thomas Kitson of Hengrave, she took Wilbye and his lute with her to provide music which he continued to do all his life.
John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical training as a chorister at Highgate School.
John Rutter directs the 28-strong Cambridge Singers in the inspiring setting of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, gathering together 23 examples of English sacred a cappella choral music drawn from several centuries.
Directed by John Rutter, whose standard of taste and excellence is of legendary repute, this multivoice classical ensemble has a pure and weightless tone and broad dynamic range, from pianissimo to forte.
The English madrigalist Wilbye spent the greater part of his life in the service of the Kytson family at Hengrave Hall near Bury St. Edmunds.
Wilbye followed the example of Thomas Morley as a composer of madrigals, publishing collections of his work in 1598 and 1609 and contributing one madrigal to the 1601 collection in honour of Queen Elizabeth, The Triumphs of Oriana, the six-voice The Lady Oriana.
Well known madrigals by Wilbye include Sweet hony sucking bees, Weep O mine eyes and Happy, O happy he.
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Modern performers often are faced with a kind of dilemma: if they choose to interpret works from previous centuries, how much do they allow their ingrained awareness of all the intervening music and attendant stylistic developments to affect their performance?
Although those questions must be answered by individual listeners (if not by music theorists and philosophers!), their premises at least partly reflect the attempt of the performers here to "look again at ideas of historical appropriateness and use them as a point of departure for new interpretations.
So we have the occasional addition of John Surman's soprano saxophone or bass clarinet, or of Barry Guy's decidedly mod but always tasteful double-bass.
John Dowland (1563 - 1626) - a slow brooding madrigal.
John Dowland (1563 - 1626) - from the Ayres for Four Voices - A gorgeous, sad, stately song, with biting dissonance and terrific lines.
Probably the most important composer before the second half of the 16th century, Josquin is especially noted for the expressive nature of his music, a trait that broke with the medieval tradition of more abstract music.
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Thomas Morley was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and author of the ‘Plaine and Easy Introduction to Practical Musick.’ His style and manner are indeed plain and easy, relying on clearly demarked sections and simple and tuneful imitative passages.
JohnWilbye, on the other hand, wrote with a most subtle and clever hand.
‘Cloe Found Amintas,’ by John Blow, recalls the pastoral quality of the madrigal while anticipating the form of the Glee, which was to flourish in England a century later.
