Thomas Morley
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Thomas Morley was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of late Renaissance music. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influ
Title page of Morley's Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597)
Robert Johnson was an English composer and lutenist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean eras. He is sometimes called "Robert Johnson II" to distinguish him from an earlier Scottish composer. He worke
Thomas Morley
…English music." Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, Morley was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. Morley was active in church music as a singer, composer and…
"Deare doe not your faire beuty wronge" by Johnson as it appears in the manuscript Drexel 4175—the only song in the collection with authorial attribution (at bottom right)