Gibbons, Orlando
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Gibbons, Orlando (1583–1625). Jacobean composer and keyboard player who contributed to most musical genres of the time. A chorister at King's College, Cambridge, in 1596, by 1605 Gibbons was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, later serving as joint organist. He was also organist at Westminster abbey from 1623. Gibbons's madrigals favoured the serious approach of the moralistic ‘Silver Swan’: ‘More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.’ His Anglican church music includes full anthems such as the exuberant ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’, but his most significant contribution was to the verse anthem. These works, including the popular ‘This is the Record of John’, alternate sections for soloist/s and organ or instrumental consort with choral passages. Gibbons's instrumental fantasias display the same skilful counterpoint, and in his day he was chiefly famous as an organist and virginalist, being described by one listener as ‘the best finger of that age’.
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Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of Musicians.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons Family of Musicians...ISBN 1-84014-209-X. $78.95.] Orlando Gibbons has not been the subject of a...length study since Edmund H. Fellowes's Orlando Gibbons: A Short Account of His Life...
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CD REVIEWS: Classical concordia Orlando Gibbons - Royal Fantasies (Metronome)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/13/2000; ; 320 words
; The blackened Jacobean elegance of Orlando Gibbons' powerful motets has always been core cathedral repertoire...Cambridge Musick - Concordia have begun their project to record Gibbons' complete music for viols with this collection of fantasias...
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DISCS: CLASSICAL HHHHI Dowland Ayres: Gerard Lesne/Ensemble Orlando Gibbons NAIVE
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 7/4/2004; ; 302 words
; ...all of Dowland's greatest airs are here and all are delivered with great sensitivity to mood and text. Ensemble Orlando Gibbons's lyrical phrasing and rich legato are uncommonly good; their arrangement of Lasso mia vita, for two viols, lute...
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Valiant-for-Truth; The Pilgrim Pavement; Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons; The Twenty-third Psalm; Prelude and Fugue in C minor Ian Watson, organ/ Richard Hickox Singers/London Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9666).(Review)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 4/1/2001; ; 548 words
; ...Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Valiant-for-Truth; The Pilgrim Pavement; Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons; The Twenty-third Psalm; Prelude and Fugue in C minor Ian Watson, organ/ Richard Hickox Singers/London Symphony...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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GIBBONS MAY BE NEXT WAYS, MEANS CHIEF.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/31/1994; 630 words
; Byline: CRAIG CRAWFORD Orlando Sentinel WASHINGTON Last week Rep. Sam Gibbons drank beer served from a silver...think I'm ready,'' said Gibbon, 74, a Florida native known...Some in Congress whisper that Gibbons is too genial to run the raucous...was in the wrong place,'' Gibbons said, ...
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 "Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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Gibbons tied to hGH.
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD); 9/10/2007; 700+ words
; ...Orioles outfielder Jay Gibbons received shipments of steroids...human growth hormone from an Orlando, Fla.-based pharmacy that...report last night on SI.com. Gibbons is the latest athlete to be...prescription medications. Gibbons, who is in Arizona after having...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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OPERA IN THE OUTDOORS TO OFFER AURAL DELIGHTS.(RHYTHM)(CLASSICS)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 7/14/2005; 700+ words
; ...composers, including Henry Purcell, John Dowland and Orlando Gibbon. And there are still some promising events left...with Second City Musick, a viol trio, in works by Gibbon, Christopher Tye, Michael East and John Dowland...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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SINGERS STAR AT MUSIC HALL, CATHEDRAL.(TIMEOUT)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 10/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Rivers and the ensemble will open with contrasting sets of a capella works: Josquin Desprez's ''Ave Maria,'' Orlando Gibbon's ''O Clap Your Hands'' and William Byrd's ''Haec Dies,'' all from the Renaissance; and from just yesterday...
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'ENGLISH EVENSONG' SLATED BY ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY EARLY MUSIC GROUP
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/24/2006; 519 words
; ...Rejoice in the Lord Alway"; Magnificat and Nunc dimittis from the "Great Service in B minor" by Henry Purcell; Orlando Gibbon's anthem "Hosanna to the Son of David"; and chants appropriate for evensong. Proctor, a resident of Canton...
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Senza fantasia
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Orlando Gibbons and the Gibbons family of musicians John...84014 209 X. This is the first book on Orlando Gibbons to appear since 1923, when the...edition of Edmund Fellowes's pioneering Orlando Gibbons and his family: the last of the...
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Orlando Gibbons
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625, English organist and composer...and madrigals. His brothers, Edward Gibbons (1568-c.1650), who was his teacher...Bibliography: See E. H. Fellowes, Orlando Gibbons and His Family (2d ed. 1952...
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Gibbons, Orlando
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Gibbons, Orlando (1583–1625). Jacobean...College, Cambridge, in 1596, by 1605 Gibbons was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal...organist at Westminster abbey from 1623. Gibbons's madrigals favoured the serious approach...
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Bloom, Orlando
Book article from: U*X*L Newsmakers
...policy of racial segregation. When Orlando was only four years old, his father...her favorite English composer, Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625). While growing up, Sonia frequently took Orlando and Samantha to the theater, and...
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madrigal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Cipriano da Rore (1516-65), Andrea Gabrieli, Orlando di Lasso, and Filippo da Monte (1521-1603) were...Celebrated English madrigal composers include Byrd, Morley, Orlando Gibbons, Weelkes, and Wilbye. Bibliography: See A. Einstein...
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John Milton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was born, England was illuminated by the versatile genius of Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, and Inigo Jones. Christopher Wren was at the height of his powers when Milton died in 1674. At that date Henry...
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