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See also:GIBBONS, ORLANDO (1583-1625) , See also:English musical composer, was the most illustrious of a See also:family of musicians all more or less able. We know of at least three generations, for Orlando's See also:father, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Gibbons, having been one of the See also:waits of See also:Cam-See also:bridge, may be assumed to have acquired some proficiency in the See also:art. His three sons and at least one of his grandsons inherited and further See also:developed his See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent. The eldest, See also:Edward, was made See also:bachelor of See also:music at See also:Cambridge, and successively held important musical appointments at the cathedrals of See also:Bristol and See also:Exeter; See also:Ellis, the second son, was organist of See also:Salisbury See also:cathedral, and is the composer of two madrigals in the collection known as the The Triumphs of Oriana. Orlando Gibbons, the youngest and by far the most celebrated of the See also:brothers, was See also:born at Cambridge in 1583. Where and under whom he studied is not known, but in his twenty-first See also:year he was sufficiently advanced and celebrated to receive the important See also:post of organist of the See also:Chapel Royal. His first published See also:composition " Fantasies in three parts, composed for viols," appeared in 161o. It seems to have been the first piece of music printed in See also:England from engraved plates, or " cut in See also:copper, the like not heretofore extant." In 1622 he was created See also:doctor of music by the university of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford. For this occasion he composed an See also:anthem for eight parts,Oclap your Hands, still extant. In the following year he became organist of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. Orlando Gibbons died before the beginning of the See also:civil See also:war, or it may be supposed that, like his eldest See also:brother, he would have been a staunch royalist. In a different sense, however, he died in the cause of his See also:master; for having been summoned to See also:Canterbury to produce a composition written in celebration of See also:Charles's See also:marriage, he there See also:fell a victim to smallpox on the 5th of See also:June 1625.
For a full See also:list of his compositions, see See also:Grove's See also:Dictionary of Music. His portrait may be found in See also:Hawkins's well-known See also:History. His vocal pieces, madrigals, motets, canons, &c., are admirable, and prove him to have been a See also:great master of pure polyphony. We have also some specimens of his instrumental music, such as the six pieces for 'the virginals published in Parthenia, a collection of instrumental music produced by Gibbons in See also:conjunction with Dr See also:Bull and See also:Byrd.
End of Article: GIBBONS, ORLANDO (1583-1625)
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