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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name                = John Mundy (or Munday)
| image               = 
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| background          = non_performing_personnel
| birth_place         =
| birth_date          = Between 1550 and 1554
| death_place         =[[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]], [[England]]
| death_date          =  29 June 1630, (aged 76–80) 
| genre               = [[Renaissance music]]
| occupation          = [[Composer]], [[Organist#Classical and church organists|organist]] and [[virginalist]]
| years_active        = Late 16th century to early 17th century
}}

'''John Mundy''' (or '''Munday''') (before 1555 – 29 June 1630) was an English [[composer]], [[virginalist]] and [[organist]] of the [[Renaissance]] period.

==Life and works==
The son and pupil of the eminent composer [[William Mundy (composer)|William Mundy]], he was organist at Eton, and succeeded [[John Marbeck]] after his death in 1585 as organist at St George's Chapel, [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]]. He received a bachelor of music degree from the [[University of Oxford]] in 1586, and his doctorate in 1624. In 1585 he was appointed joint organist of [[Westminster Abbey]] with [[Nathaniel Giles]], a post he maintained until his death in 1630.

Mundy was one of the earliest English [[Madrigal (music)|madrigalists]]. He published a volume of ''Songs and Psalms'' in 1594, and contributed a madrigal, ''Lightly she whipped o'er the dales'', to ''[[The Triumphs of Oriana]]'' (1601), a compilation of madrigals by [[Thomas Morley]] in honour of [[Queen Elizabeth I]]. He composed sacred music in English and Latin, including music for the ''[[Book of Common Prayer]],'' and is represented in the ''[[Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]]'' by five pieces, including a magnificent set of variations on the popular song ''Goe from my window'' and a whimsical but fine miniature, ''Munday's Joy''. He also wrote a setting of the recusant [[Chidiock Tichborne]]'s poem ''My prime of youth'' before the latter's gruesome execution in 1586 for his part in the [[Babington plot]].

Mundy died on 29 June 1630 at [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]], succeeded in his post there by his colleague [[Nathaniel Giles]].

==Compositions==

Songs and Psalmes (pub. 1594)
*For 3 voices
**1. Praise the Lord, O my soul
**2. Save me, O God
**3. O all ye nations of the Lord
**4. Blessed art thou that fearest God (1st part)
**5. Thus art thou blest that fearest God (2nd part)
**6. Hear my prayer, O Lord
**7. Ye people all in one accord
**8. O Lord, turn not away thy face
**9. O come, let us lift up our voice
**10. Of all the birds that I have heard
**11. As I went a walking in the month of May
**12. Turn about and see me
*For 4 voices
**13. Lord, to thee I make my moan
**14. O Lord, of whom I do depend
**15. Sing ye unto the Lord our God
**16. I lift my heart to thee
**17. My prime of youth
**18. In deep distress
**19. The longer that I live
**20. The shepherd Strephon (1st part)
**21. Witness, ye heavens (2nd part)
**22. Heigh ho! I’ll go to plough no more
*For 5 voices
**23. Lord, arise and help thy servant
**24. Have mercy on me, O Lord
**25. Unto thee lift I up mine eyes
**26. Were I a king
**27. In midst of woods (1st part)
**28. The blackbird (2nd part)
**29. Penelope that longed for the night
**30. Who loves a life
*Lightly she whipped o'er the dales, madrigal, in 5 parts [pub. in ''The Triumphs of Oriana,'' 1601]
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'''Sacred vocal music'''
*Aedes nostra sancta, motet
*Ah helpless wretch, anthem
*Blessed be the Lord, sacred song, in 5 parts [possibly by William Mundy]
*Blessed is God in all His gifts, anthem, in 7 parts
*De Lamentatione, sacred motet
*Dominus illuminatio mea, motet, in 3 parts
*Dum transisset sabbatum, sacred responsory
*Give laud unto the Lord, anthem, in 7 parts
*In te Domine speravi, sacred motet
*Judica me Deus, sacred motet
*Kyrie 'lux et origo'
*Let us now laud and magnify with music, anthem, in 4 parts
*O give thanks unto the Lord for he is gracious, anthem, for 4, 5, or 7 parts
*O God my strength and fortitude, anthem
*O Lord, our governor, anthem, for 5 or 8 parts
*Send aid and save me, anthem
*Sicut erat, [motet], in 3 parts
*Sing joyfully unto God our strength, anthem, in 5 parts
*Thou hast make him lower
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'''Instrumental music'''
;for keyboard
*Fantasia [#II in Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
*Fantasia, Faire Wether, etc.  [#III in Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
*Robin [#XV in Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
*Goe from my Window [#XLII in Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
*Munday's Joy [#CCLXXXII in Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

'''for instrumental consort'''
*Judica me deus, motet without words, in 6 parts, for viols
*In nōie, in 6 parts
*In nōie, in 5 parts
*[In nomine], in 6 parts [unnamed in original manuscript]
*In nōie, in 5 parts

==References==
*Jerome & Elizabeth Roche. ''A Dictionary of Early Music''. Faber & Faber, London 1981. {{ISBN|0-571-10036-8}}
*Elizabethan Consort Music, vols. 44-45 (ed. Paul Doe) (London, 1979–88)

==External links==
{{wikisource|Mundy, John (DNB00)}}
*{{ChoralWiki|John_Mundy|John Mundy}}
*{{IMSLP|Mundy, John|John Mundy}}
*[https://stainer.co.uk/shop/em35b/ The English Madrigalists, vol. 35b: John Mundy, Songs and Psalms] (ed. Edmund H. Fellowes, Thurston Dart) (London, 1924; rev. 1961) ISMN: 9790220211652
*[https://rism.online/people/30006887/sources John Mundy Manuscripts] at RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)
*[http://aeolianconsort.chakin.com/The_Baldwin_Collection.htm#No121 The Baldwin Collection of Motets, etc, R.M.24.d.2. (1590-1606), nos. 41, 46-49, 130] at The Aeolian Consort

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