Virginalist
Virginalist denotes a composer of the so-called virginalist school, and usually refers to the English keyboard composers of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. The term does not appear to have been applied earlier than the 19th century. Although the virginals was among the most popular keyboard instruments of this period, there is no evidence that the composers wrote exclusively for this instrument, and their music is equally suited to the harpsichord, the clavichord or the chamber organ.
The term is sometimes also applied to other northern European composers of this period, such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Samuel Scheidt.
English virginalists
- John Blitheman
- John Bull
- William Byrd
- Giles Farnaby
- Richard Farnaby
- Orlando Gibbons
- William Inglot
- Thomas Morley
- John Munday
- Martin Peerson
- Peter Philips
- Ferdinando Richardson
- William Tisdale
- Thomas Tomkins
See also
- Virginals
- Composers of the Tudor period
- The Mulliner Book
- The Dublin Virginal Manuscript
- My Ladye Nevells Booke
- Susanne van Soldt Manuscript
- Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
- Clement Matchett's Virginal Book
- Parthenia (music)
- Priscilla Bunbury's Virginal Book
- Elizabeth Roger's Virginal Book
- Anne Cromwell's Virginal Book
References
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