Glyn, Margaret H(enrietta)
Glyn, Margaret H(enrietta)
Glyn, Margaret H(enrietta), English musicologist; b. Ewell, Surrey, Feb. 28, 1865; d. there, June 3, 1946. She studied in London under C.J. Frost and Yorke Trotter, and became an authority on keyboard music of the Tudor period. She ed. organ and virginal music by Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, and other composers, and publ. The Rhythmic Conception of Music (1907), Analysis of the Evolution of Musical Form (1909), About Elizabethan Virginal Music and Its Composers (1924; 2nd ed., 1934), and Theory of Musical Evolution (1924). She also composed a number of works for organ.
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