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A composer central towards the musical existence of turbulent mid-seventeenth century Britain, Matthew Locke discovered music like a choirboy at Exeter. A 1648 manuscript that Locke subtitled ONCE I was in the reduced Countreys continues to be cited as proof he was utilized by the courtroom of Prince Charles, who …

William Lawes, child of a place vicar at Salisbury Cathedral, showed (like his older sibling Henry Lawes) music guarantee at any early age group. He found an early on patron in Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, who brought the youthful chorister to his Wiltshire estates to review music along with …

Even within an period therefore richly stocked with great brands, William Byrd needs particular attention as the utmost prodigiously talented, prolific, and versatile author of his contemporaries. Byrd was created in about 1543, which is assumed that he was a chorister in the Chapel Royal (his brothers had been choristers …

As England’s greatest author of the Baroque, Henry Purcell was dubbed the “Orpheus Britannicus” for his capability to combine pungent British counterpoint with expressive, flexible, and dramatic phrase configurations. While he do compose instrumental music, like the essential viol fantasias, almost all his output is at the vocal/choral world. His …