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-'''Thomas Morley''', (1557-1603), [[English]] [[Elizabethan]] [[composer]], had a relatively successful life. He was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, organist at St. Pauls, [[London]], the writer of “''Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke''” (which was popular for two centuries and is still a major source of information about Elizabethan music making), held for a period the royal monopoly on music publishing, and probably knew [[Shakespeare]] as he wrote music for various of the Bard’s plays.
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-He was one of the greatest of the English [[madrigal]]ists, wrote much fine instrumental and church music and is known for his light and lilting [[lute song]]s of the ''ballett'' style; including perhaps the most well-known song of the age, and the standard bearer for its type: Shakespeare’s “''It was a lover and his lass''” from "''As you Like it''"
-:"It was a lover and his lass,
-::With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
-:That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
-::In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
-:When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
-:Sweet lovers love the spring.
-:Between the acres of the rye,
-::With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
-:These pretty country folks would lie,
-::In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
-:When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding
-:Sweet lovers love the spring.
-:This carol they began that hour,
-::With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
-:How that life was but a flower
-::In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
-:When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
-:Sweet lovers love the spring.
-:And, therefore, take the present time
-::With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
-:For love is crownèd with the prime
-::In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
-:When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
-:Sweet lovers love the spring."
-==See also==
-*[[Madrigal]]
-*[[Lute song]]
-[[Category: Composers]]
-{{DEFAULTSORT: Morley, Thomas}}

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