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Thomas Morley

Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influence on the English madrigal, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians states that Morley was "chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of English music."[1]

For other people named Thomas Morley, see Thomas Morley (disambiguation).

Thomas Morley

early October 1602 (aged 45)

composer, organist and madrigalist

Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, Morley was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare.


Morley was active in church music as a singer, composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He was also involved in music publishing. From 1598 up to his death he held a printing patent (a type of monopoly).[2] He used the monopoly in partnership with professional music printers such as Thomas East.

The Burial Service

De profundis clamavi

Domine, dominus noster

Domine, non est exultarem cor meum

Eheu sustulerunt domine

The First Service

How long wilt thou forget me?

O amica mea

edited by Morley, published in 1601

The Triumphs of Oriana

Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4

Gustave Reese

Article "Thomas Morley" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.  1-56159-174-2

ISBN

The University of Reading Library featuring: Thomas Morley, A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke. London, 1597

[1]

Philip Ledger (ed) OUP 1978

The Oxford Book of English Madrigals

The Madrigal, Jerome Roche, 1972.  0-09-113260-6

ISBN

Shaw, Watkins (1965). . The Musical Times. 106 (1471). Musical Times Publications Ltd.: 669–673. doi:10.2307/954169. JSTOR 954169 – via JSTOR.

"Thomas Morley of Norwich"

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Thomas Morley

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Thomas Morley

in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

Free scores by Thomas Morley

at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

Free scores by Thomas Morley

More information, including full text, of Morley's at the University of North Texas Music Library's Virtual Rare Book Room

Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke

HTML transcription, with numbered page divisions, of Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke: pp. , 69–115, and 116–183 and end matter (at the Jacobs (Indiana University) School of Music Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature)

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