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Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and the composer of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare.
Morley was born in Norwich, in East Anglia, the son of a brewer. Most likely he was a singer in the local cathedral from his boyhood, and he became master of choristers there in 1583. However, Morley evidently spent some time away from East Anglia, for he later referred to the great Elizabethan composer of sacred music, William Byrd, as his teacher; while the dates he studied with Byrd are not known, they were most likely in the early 1570s. In 1588 he received his bachelor's degree from Oxford, and shortly thereafter was employed as organist at St. Paul's in London. His young son died the following year.
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Thomas Morley
English composer, organist and editor (1557–1602)
For other people named Thomas Morley, see Thomas Morley (disambiguation).
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Title page of Morley's Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke (1597) | |
| Born | c. 1557 Norwich, England |
| Died | early October 1602 (aged 45) London, England |
| Occupation(s) | composer, organist and madrigalist |
Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) 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 influence on the English madrigal, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians states that Morley was "chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian skott on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of English music."[1]
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Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – October 1602) was an Englishcomposer, theorist, editor and organist of the Renaissance, and the foremost member of the English Madrigal School. He was the most famous writer of secular music in Elizabethan England, and the composer of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. Morley's madrigals, which were loosely based on the Italian madrigal form, became an important secular vocal music in England due to his ease of melodic writing, which he generously taught to others in a treatise on singing and composing.
Morley was one of the first composers of madrigals to utilize the practice of musical "imitation" to express emotionally the poetic narrative of a given text. This practice would eventually influence composers of the Baroque era in their use of musical components such as melody and harmony to express specific meanings or affectations in their works.