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
They sang us old-time motettes, madrigals, ballads, and we were taken back to our own country by the soothing harmonies of Weelkes.
From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville
Some rare sets of madrigals have been purchased, specially, in 1856, those of Morley, Watson, Weelkes, Wilbye, and Yonge, for £24 14s. 6d.;
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
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