Description
Farnaby, Giles: Canzonets to Foure Voyces (1598)
Ref
EM20
Categories
Choral Music
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Collected Editions
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The English Madrigalists
By
Giles Farnaby
Edited Edmund Fellowes. Revised Thurston Dart
Paperback
Remembered chiefly for his virginal music, this always fresh and charming composer – who was probably an instrument maker by trade – may well have penned these pieces simply for the enjoyment of his London friends living in the wards of Bishopsgate and Cripplegate. His experience as a keyboard player may have led him to some chromatic vocal writing, particularly in the admirable
Construe my meaning
, rivalling strangenesses in the work of his Italian contemporary, Gesualdo.
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