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Thomas Weelkes

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Thomas Weelkes c.1575–1623, English composer. His four books of madrigals (1597–1600) mark Weelkes as one of the great English madrigalists. His music is remarkable for melodic characterization and innovative use of chromatic harmonic progressions. The Triumphs of Oriana contains his popular "As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending." In 1602, Weelkes became organist of Chichester Cathedral. Of his 10 church services that survive in fragments, all are of interest for their original treatment of the liturgy. He also wrote anthems and a few instrumental works.

Bibliography: See study by D. Brown (1969).

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Weelkes, Thomas (?1576–1623), English composer. With Wilbye, he was the most important of the English madrigalists who followed the lead given by Morley in 1593 and 1594. He published several volumes of madrigals and contributed one of the finest madrigals to The Triumphes of Oriana in 1601. Weelkes is one of the composers whose imagination is most evidently fired by the bold and vivid imagery of the age of Donne.

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Weelkes, Thomas (c.1575–1623) English madrigal composer and organist. Almost 100 of his madrigals have survived, the finest being sets of five- and six-part madrigals.

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