Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Editorial conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Childhood and Early Career
- Chapter 2 From Church Musician to Entrepreneur
- Chapter 3 The Market for Recreational Music
- Chapter 4 The Establishment of Music Printing in London
- Chapter 5 Morley's Monopoly
- Chapter 6 Morley's Publishing Business
- Chapter 7 Morley's Printing Business
- Chapter 8 Morley and the Madrigal
- Chapter 9 Morley's Other Publications
- Chapter 10 Music Publishing after Morley
- Chapter 11 Morley's Legacy
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 1 - Childhood and Early Career
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Editorial conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Childhood and Early Career
- Chapter 2 From Church Musician to Entrepreneur
- Chapter 3 The Market for Recreational Music
- Chapter 4 The Establishment of Music Printing in London
- Chapter 5 Morley's Monopoly
- Chapter 6 Morley's Publishing Business
- Chapter 7 Morley's Printing Business
- Chapter 8 Morley and the Madrigal
- Chapter 9 Morley's Other Publications
- Chapter 10 Music Publishing after Morley
- Chapter 11 Morley's Legacy
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
But what businesse hath driven you to this end of the towne?
asks Master Gnorimus.
My errand is to you, to make my self your scholler. And seeing I have found you at such convenient leisure, I am determined not to depart till I have one lesson in Musicke.
replies Philomathes, after suffering extreme embarrassment at a social gathering the previous evening:
Among the rest of the guestes, by chaunce, master Aphron came thether also, who falling to discourse of Musicke, was in an argument so quickely taken up & hotly pursued by Eudoxus and Calergus, two kinsmen of Sophobolus, as in his owne art he was overthrowne. But he still sticking in his opinion, the two gentlemen requested mee to examine his reasons, and confute them. But I refusing & pretending ignorance, the whole companie condemned mee of discurtesie, being fully perswaded, that I had beene as skilfull in that art, as they tooke mee to be learned in others. But supper being ended, the Musicke bookes, according to the custome being brought to the table: the mistresse of the house presented mee with a part, earnestly requesting mee to sing. But when after manie excuses, I protested unfainedly that I could not: everie one began to wonder. Yea, some whispered to others, demaunding how I was brought up.
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- Thomas MorleyElizabethan Music Publisher, pp. 3 - 28Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014