Gibbons, Orlando - Madrigals and Motets for Five Parts (1612)

Gibbons seems to have been outside the process ‘by which’, wrote Joseph Kerman in The Elizabethan Madrigal, ‘England first became sophisticated in the ways of Continental music.’ These 20 pieces certainly, if differently, follow the pure line of William Byrd and are still of the old ‘English’ school. They include The Silver Swan and Dainty Fine Bird.

Edited Edmund Fellowes
Revised Thurston Dart

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