About Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical family dynasty, by the 1610s he was the leading composer and organist in England, with a career cut short by his untimely death in 1625. As a result, Gibbons's oeuvre was not as large as that of his contemporaries, like the elder William Byrd, but he made considerable contributions to many genres of his time. Musicologists characterize his music as exemplifying the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque periods.
Notable works:
The hymnes and songs of the church
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Approached
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The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her…
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Beautifies
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