John Farmer (composer)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people". Template:Use dmy dates John Farmer (c. 1570Template:Spaced ndashc. 1601) was an important composer of the English Madrigal School.[1] He was born in England during the Elizabethan period, and was also known by his skillful settings for four voices of the old church psalm tunes.[2] His exact date of birth is not known – a 1926 article by Grattan Flood posits a date around 1564 to 1565 based on matriculation records.[3] Farmer was under the patronage of the Earl of Oxford and dedicated his collection of canons and his late madrigal volume to his patron.[4]
In 1595, Farmer was appointed organist and master of children at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, and also, at the same time, organist of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.[5][6] In 1599, he moved to London and published his only collection of four-part madrigals, which he dedicated to Edward de Vere.
His Lord's Prayer is performed widely throughout many churches and cathedrals, mostly in Britain.[7] It is included in Volume 2 of Oxford Choral Classics, published by Oxford University Press.[8]
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Farmer's Divers & Sundry Waies was the source of the fugues in Michael Maier's book, Atalanta Fugiens.[9] Of the 50 three-part fugues in Atalanta Fugiens, 40 have been shown by Ludwig to be based on Farmer's compositions in Divers & Sundry Waies.
Selected works
- Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone
- Fair Nymphs, I Heard One Telling
- A Little Pretty Bonny Lass
- Take Time While Time Doth Last
References
External links
- Free scores by John Farmer in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Free scores by John Farmer at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- A free recording of a song from Umeå Akademiska Kör
- Divers & sundry waies of two parts in one, to the number of fortie, uppon one playnsong at the New York Public Library
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- ↑ Ludwig, Loren. "John Farmer's Sundry Waies: The English Origin of Michael Maier's 'Alchemical FuguesTemplate:'". Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's "Atalanta fugiens" (1618) with Scholarly Commentary. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020. Script error: No such module "doi".
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- English madrigal composers
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- English Renaissance composers
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- 1570s births
- 1601 deaths
- People of the Elizabethan era
- 16th-century English composers
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- English male classical composers