Description
Gibbons, Orlando: First Set of Madrigals and Motets for Five Parts (1612)
Ref
EM5
Categories
Choral Music
,
Collected Editions
,
The English Madrigalists
By
Orlando Gibbons
Edited Edmund Fellowes
Revised Thurston Dart
Note: Print on demand. Spiral-bound A4
Gibbons seems to have been outside the process ‘by which’, wrote Joseph Kerman in
The Elizabethan Madrigal
, ‘England first became sophisticated in the ways of Continental music.’ These 20 pieces certainly, if differently, follow the pure line of William Byrd and are still of the old ‘English’ school. They include
The Silver Swan
and
Dainty Fine Bird
.
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