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• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Poet
• Renaissance

1567–1620 English poet and composer Campion first distinguished himself as a poet and poetic theorist. His treatise, Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602), included controversial opinions regarding metre and rhyme, revealing the musical basis of his poetry. He published four books of lute-songs. Some are humanist experiments in setting classically accentuated poetry, but the best are ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Instrumentalist
• Renaissance

fantasia) are among the finest of the genre. Recommended Recording: Music for the Spanish Kings, Hesperion XX (dir) Jordi Savall (Virgin/Erato) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Thomas Campion | Renaissance | Classical ...

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b. 1944 English composer The influence of Cage and Feldman can be heard in Nyman’s creation of elastic, intuitive sound-worlds. 1–100 (1976) is simply a series of 100 chords descending through a circle of fourths. Nyman’s early music is full of allusions to and quotations from music of the past, in addition to the use of amplification and rhythms ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Renaissance

Locks’ (1597), are also his most poignant, and those of John Danyel (1564–c. 1626), notably ‘Can Dolefull Notes’ (1606), are similarly expressive. The ayres of the poet and composer Campion, such as ‘When to her Lute Corinna Sings’, are in a much lighter and simpler style. Lute Music Several important developments took place in lute music during the Renaissance. ...