Weelkes
Britishnoun
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“Draw on Sweet Night” promises an evening of madrigals, anthems and catches — a type of round — by composers including Thomas Tomkins, Thomas Weelkes and Henry Purcell.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 28, 2013
Choral evensong will be sung by Schola Epiphaniensis with music by Thomas Weelkes and Orlando Gibbons.
From Washington Post
A collection of the popular "fantasies" of Jacobean England, in which composers such as Thomas Weelkes, Richard Dering and Thomas Ravenscroft set the raucous cries of London peddlers to polished, motetlike instrumental forms.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is a somewhat brief version of this song in the collection of Madrigals, etc., by Thomas Weelkes 1597, this person being the composer of the music, but not necessarily the author of the words.
From Bacon and Shakspere by Burr, William Henry
In 1598 Weelkes published “Ballets and Madrigals to five voices,” which was followed in 1600 by “Madrigals of five and six parts.”
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
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