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Gibbons, Orlando

GIBBONS, ORLANDO (1583 - 1625)

Orlando Gibbons belongs to the generation of English composers that followed that of William Byrd, forty years his senior, who had died in 1623. He was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, where his elder brother was Master of the Choristers, and later became a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, which he served as an organist and to which he later added the position of organist at Westminster Abbey. He wrote music for the Church of England, madrigals, consort music and keyboard works.

Church Music

Gibbons wrote some forty anthems. Of these the verse anthem This is the record of John is one of the best known. The verse anthem, a peculiarly Anglican form of church music, contrasts a solo voice with passages for full choir. The eight-voice full anthem O clap your hands is a fine example of another form of anthem, without the use of solo voices. Other full anthems include Hosanna to the son of David and Lift up your heads, while the Christmas anthem Behold, I bring you glad tidings, with Glorious and powerful God and Sing unto the Lord, o ye saints, are fine examples of the verse anthem.

Secular Vocal

Music The most famous of all the madrigals Gibbons wrote is The Silver Swanne, included in the only collection published by the composer, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets, apt for Viols and Voyces, which appeared, advertised as newly composed, in 1612. Some of these have more of the form of consort songs, for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment, and could be performed in this way, rather than with each part sung. Gibbons's consort songs include a remarkable concoction, The Cryes of London, for five voices and five viols, a composition that makes use of the street cries of hawkers and vendors in London in his time.

Instrumental Music

Gibbons wrote a number of pieces for onsorts of viols (bowed string instruments) the playing of which was socially acceptable. These include contrapuntal Fantasias, dance movements and examples of the traditional English instrumental form, the In nomine, a composition based on a fragment of a setting of the Benedictus in a Mass by the English composer John Taverner.

Keyboard Music

Gibbons continued the English tradition of keyboard music exemplified in the work of William Byrd, John Bull and others. Work by all three was published in 1613 under the title Parthenia or the Maydenhead of the First Musicke that ever was printed for the Virginals. Gibbons contributed a number of fantasias, one of them for double organ, and various airs and dance movements, including Lord Salisbury's Pavan and Galliard.

Discography
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	Gibbons: Anthems & Verse Anthems	£6.99	Apr 30, 2007	Hyperion Helios
	GIBBONS: Hymnes and Songs of the Church	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jul 31, 2006	Naxos Classics
	HOLBORNE / GIBBONS / BYRD / FARNABY / PEERSON / BULL / TISDALE: Keyboard Works	£15.99	Jan 23, 2006	Chandos
	GIBBONS: Choral and Organ Music	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	GIBBONS: Consort and Keyboard Music / Songs and Anthems	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics

Author also appears in: (16)
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	Various: All The Queens Men	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Feb 28, 2011	Naxos Classics
	Various: Music From The Reign Of King James I	£15.99	Jan 31, 2011	Hyperion
	DISCOVER CHORAL MUSIC	£12.99	Jul 30, 2007	Naxos Educational
	The English Anthem, Vol. 8	£13.99	Dec 22, 2004	Hyperion
	Art & Music: Rembrandt - Music of His Time	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Sep 24, 2004	Naxos Educational
	THE NAXOS BOOK OF CAROLS (Classic Christmas)	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Nov 4, 2003	Naxos Classics
	The English Hymn, Vol. 3 / Hills of the north, rejoice	£9.99	Aug 23, 2002	Hyperion
	Art & Music: Rubens - Music of His Time	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jul 1, 2002	Naxos Educational
	Passiontide: Music for Solace and Reflection	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Mar 5, 2002	Naxos Classics
	Songs my father taught me	£13.99	Feb 4, 2002	Hyperion
	The Coronation of King George II	£13.99	Oct 1, 2001	Hyperion
	Advent at St Paul's	£13.99	Jan 1, 2001	Hyperion
	World of Early Music	£12.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	Gloria: Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	Early Music (The Glory of)	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics
	Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5 & The Storm	~~£6.99~~ £4.99	Jan 1, 2000	Naxos Classics

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