Early Keyboard Music, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Early Keyboard Music, Vol. 2: A Collection of Pieces Written for the Virginal, Spinet, Harpsichord, and Clavichord Orlando gibbons was born in Cambridge in 1583, of a noted family of musicians, and, like the other virginal-composers, was highly distinguished as an organist. In that capacity he received an appointment, in 1604, to the Chapel Royal, and in 1623 to Westminster Abbey. He composed much church-music, his first virginal-music was published in 1610, and the following year he joined Byrde and Bull in the publication of the famous virginal-collection entitled Parthenia. John blow came upon the scene after the art of music in England had been crushed and many of its leading practitioners dispersed by the Civil War and Pur itan domination. Born in 1648, he was among the first to join the reestablished Children of the Chapel Royal after the Restoration. While yet a chorister, he tried his hand at composition, and attained no mean eminence in the eyes of his contem poraries through his church-music and as an organist, in the latter capacity occupy ing some of. The most prominent positions in the kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.