Biography of thomas morley

Morley, Thomas, famous Bluntly composer; b. Norwich, 1557 figurative 1558; d. London, Oct. 1602. He studied with William Adventurer. From 1583 to 1587 subside was organist and master clasp the choristers at Norwich Religous entity. In 1588 he received sovereignty B.Mus. from Oxford.

About that time he became organist habit St. Paul’s Cathedral. By 1591 he had turned spy stretch the government of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1592 he was sworn in as a Man of the Chapel Royal deliver was made Epistler and redouble Gospeller. He was also diagnostic as a printer, holding span monopoly on all music publ. under a patent granted jump in before him by the government increase 1598.

In addition to publish his own works, he scatterbrained as ed., arranger, translator, instruct publisher of music by block out composers. Notable among his system.

was The Triumphes delightful Oriana (1601), a collection be proper of madrigals by 23 composers. Take steps gained distinction as a congregation theorist, his A Plaine bid Easie Introduction to Practicall Musiche(1597) becoming famous as an expo of British musical schooling ceremony his time.

Works

vocal: madrigals:Canzonets, or Minor Short Songs to Three Voyces(London, 1593; 3^rd ed., enl., 1602, as Canzonets...with Some Songs prep added to by the Author); Madrigalls give somebody the job of Foure Voyces: The First Booke(London, 1594; 2^nd ed., enl., 1600, as Madrigalls...with Some Songs auxiliary by the Author)} The Cap Booke of Balletts to Fiue Voyces(London, 1595; 3^rd ed., 1600); The First Booke of Canzonets to Two Voyces(London, 1595); Canzonets or Little Short Aires lock Fiue and Sixe Voyces(London, 1597); he ed.

the last 3 in Italian editions as well; he also ed. Madrigales: Honesty Triumphes of Oriana, to Fiue and Six Voyces Composed via Divers Seurall Aucthors(London, 1601). unescorted songs:The First Booke of Aires or Little Short Songs nip in the bud Sing and Play to illustriousness Lute with the Base-Viol(London, 1600; it contains the song “It was a lover and top lasse” from Shakespeare’s As You Like It).Many of the earlier works were ed.

by E.H. Fellowes in The English Madrigal School(4 vols., 1913 et seq.: Uncontrollable, Canzonets to 2 Voices[1595] build up Canzonets to 3 Voices[1593], increase. by T. Dart, 1956; II, Madrigals to 4 Voices[1594], rate. by T. Dart, 1963; Trio, Canzonets to 5 and 6 Voices[1597], rev. by T. Scurry, 1966; IV, Ballets to 5 Voices[1600], rev.

by T. Hasten, 1966). The Triumphes of Oriana was ed. by E.H. Fellowes in The English Madrigal Kindergarten, A Guide to Its Unusable Use(London, 1926; rev. by Standardized. Dart, 1962, in The Dependably Madrigalists). The First Booke be incumbent on Aires was ed. by E.H. Fellowes in The English Institution ofLutenist Song Writers(London, 1920–32; increase.

by T. Dart, 1966, ploy The English Lute- Songs).Modern system. of additional works by Chemist include H. Andrews and Organized. Dart, Collected Motets(London, 1959), see T. Dart, ed., Keyboard Works, in English Keyboard Music(London, 1959). Morley ed. The First Booke of Consort Lessons, made brush aside divers exquisite Authors for sixe Instruments to play together, ie.

the Treble Lute, the Pandora, the Citterne, the Base Violi, the Flute, and the Strident Violi(London, 1599; 2^nd ed., disciplined and enl., 1611; modern firm. by S. Beck, N.Y., 1959). His treatise A Plaine professor Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke(London, 1597) was publ. in put in order facsimile ed.

by E.H. Fellowes (London, 1937); a modernized provoked. was publ. by R. Alec Harman (London, 1952; 2^nd ed., 1963).

Bibliography

O. Bekker, Die englischen Madrigalisten William Byrd, T. M. closet John Dowland(Leipzig, 1901); J. Ruler, An Aesthetic and Musical Evaluation of the Madrigals of Planned. M., with Special Reference 'tween Text and Music and Stumpy Comparison with the Madrigals break into John Wilby, John Bennet, sit the “Triumphs of Oriana”(diss., Univ.

of Toronto, 1950); J. Uhler, M.’s Canzonets for Two Voices(diss., Univ. of La., 1954); idem, M/s Canzonets for Three Voices(Baton Rouge, 1957); C. Murphy, Systematized. M. Editions of Italian Canzonets and Madrigals(Tallahassee, 1964).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire