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'''William Byrd''' (1543-1623), [[English]] [[composer]], was one of the last and perhaps greatest of the great [[Tudor]] and [[Jacobean]] masters that formed the musical component of the [[English Renaissance]].
 
'''William Byrd''' (1543-1623), [[English]] [[composer]], was one of the last and perhaps greatest of the great [[Tudor]] and [[Jacobean]] masters that formed the musical component of the [[English Renaissance]].
  
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He was a pupil of [[Thomas Tallis]], was appointed organist and choirmaster at [[Lincoln]] Cathedral in 1563, joined the Chapel Royal in 1570 and, with Tallis, was given a royal monopoly of music printing. (He was to publish three sets of his own songs to English texts.)
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He was a pupil of [[Thomas Tallis]], was appointedGOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA!O] – he also wrote joyful consort and keyboard pieces that can be called exuberant.
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Whilst brought up in a [[Protestant]] household, he increasingly leaned towards [[Catholicism]], and much of his finest music is set to [[Latin]] texts – his music for the mass is the equal of any on the Continent. Whilst much of his catholic music is of a melancholy nature – he equated the state of catholic England with the fall of [[Jerusalem]] – he also wrote joyful consort and keyboard pieces that can be called exuberant.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 23:35, February 20, 2011

William Byrd (1543-1623), English composer, was one of the last and perhaps greatest of the great Tudor and Jacobean masters that formed the musical component of the English Renaissance.

He was a pupil of Thomas Tallis, was appointedGOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA! GOD IS ATHEIST AND SOCIALIST! FCCK CONSERVAPEDIA!O] – he also wrote joyful consort and keyboard pieces that can be called exuberant..


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