He and his teacher were granted a 21-year monopoly on printing polyphonic music by Elizabeth I. Ten paired pavanes and galliards appear in a work by him that is, besides the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the most important collection of keyboard music of the English Renaissance.
This composer preceded John Bull and Jan Sweelinck in writing what is thought to be the earliest hexachord fantasia. He employed a "false relation" between an F-sharp in the Superius and an F in the Bassus in the opening phrase of his setting of Ave Verum Corpus, which is in G minor and 4/2 time. He included variations on "Sellinger's Round" and "Carman's Whistle" in one instrumental collection. The death of Robert Cecil inspired a pair of dances by him titled for the "Earl of (*) Salisbury". He and his teacher were granted a 21-year monopoly on printing polyphonic music by Elizabeth I. Ten paired pavanes and galliards appear in a work by him that is, besides the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, the most important collection of keyboard music of the English Renaissance. For 10 points, name this English Catholic composer, who wrote My Ladye Nevells Booke and co-wrote the Cantiones Sacrae with Thomas Tallis.
This composer preceded John Bull and Jan Sweelinck in writing what is thought to be the earliest hexachord fantasia.
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