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Weelkes

/ wiːlks /

noun

  1. WeelkesThomas?15751623MEnglishMUSIC: composer Thomas. ?1575–1623, English composer of madrigals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Weelkes paid a loving tribute to "his dearest friend" Morley, on the latter's death.

It was with the Fancy that Weelkes made an early experiment of adding a vocal part quite independent of the strings.

Of this sort are Weelkes's madrigals mentioned below, book ii.

The first madrigal of Thomas Weelkes begins with the words, “Sit down,” and the musical pattern falls a fifth.

But it differs in one respect from Weelkes', for it is an "In Nomine" for strings.

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