Orlando Gibbons (bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist...
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Canterbury, Kent, and was named after the 16th-century English composer Orlando Gibbons. He has an older sister, Samantha Bloom. Bloom initially believed that...
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Orlando Gibbons (1583–1625) include works in virtually every genre of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Due to his sudden and early death, Gibbons'...
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1575-1628) - Fantasia 'On the Hexachord' à4, VdGS No.10 (ca.1630) Orlando Gibbons (bap.1583-1625) - Fantasia à4, VdGS No.1GB (ca.1630) Performed by Phillip...
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The Silver Swan (madrigal) (category Compositions by Orlando Gibbons)
"The Silver Swan" is the most famous madrigal by Orlando Gibbons. It is scored for 5 voices (in most sources, soprano (S), alto (A), tenor (T), baritone (Bar)...
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the second son, and first surviving child of the composer Orlando Gibbons. Christopher Gibbons was born into an already very musical family, established...
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See media help. Orlando Gibbons (bap.1583-1625) - Fantasia à4, VdGS No.1GB, Oxford. Christ Church, Mss.732-35 (ca.1630) Orlando Gibbons (bap.1583–1625)...
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director Christopher Gibbons (1615–1676), English composer, son of Orlando Conor Gibbons, Irish Gaelic footballer D. Barry Gibbons (1929-1998), American...
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exclaims, "I will play the swan, / And die in music." A madrigal by Orlando Gibbons, "The Silver Swan", states the legend thus: The silver Swan, who living...
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alternate between polyphonic and homophonic textures (MIDI rendition) Orlando Gibbons (bap.1583-1625) In Nomine à5 Five-part In Nomine, probably written...
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