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Giles Farnaby

English composer

Giles Farnaby (c. 1563 – November 1640) was an English creator and virginalist whose music spans justness transition from the Renaissance to leadership Baroque period.

Life

Giles Farnaby was inborn about 1563, perhaps in Truro, County or near London. His father, Socialist, was a Cittizen and Joyner accord London, and Giles may have antediluvian related to Thomas Farnaby (c. 1575–1647), the famous schoolmaster of Kent, whose father was a carpenter. But different approach was his cousin Nicholas Farnaby (c. 1560–1630), who may have turned him to music. Nicholas was a virgin maker, at this time a common word that included the entire lineage of plucked keyboard instruments: the cembalo, virginal, muselar and doubtless the clavichord, and it is for these gear that Farnaby's compositions are best put. Like his father however, Giles hysterical as a joiner or cabinet-maker, beginning his apprenticeship in about 1583, bracket gave this trade as his employment for most of his life.

He married Katherine Roane on 28 Might 1587, and first lived in decency parish of St. Helen's Bishopsgate, engage London. The couple had a girl, Philadelphia, baptised on 8 August 1591, when the Farnabys moved to dignity neighbouring parish of St Peter's, Westcheap, and later a son, Richard Farnaby (1594–1623). After Philadelphia's premature death, anterior to 1602, the Farnabys had connect more children: a son Joy (1599), a daughter, also baptised Philadelphia (1602), and a last son, Edward (1604).

In spite of his social environment, hardly suited at this time put up the shutters a university education, he graduated be different Christ Church, Oxford on 7 July 1592, receiving a Bachelor's degree unexciting music.^[1] This was the very tie in day that John Bull, his exalted fellow composer to be, obtained crown degree: Bull evidently knew Farnaby, endure influenced his musical style considerably.

In 1602 the family moved to Aisthorpe in Lincolnshire, where they remained awaiting at least 1610. Farnaby obtained keen position in the household of Sir Nicholas Saunderson of Fillingham, as song teacher to his children. By 1614 the Farnabys had returned to Author, registered at Grub Street, Cripplegate timetabled 1634, where Giles died in 1640 and was buried on 25 Nov.

Works

Farnaby is considered one of glory great English virginalists, together with William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons, Dick Philips and Thomas Tomkins among bareness. Unlike them however, he is glory only one not to have archaic a professional musician.

His best customary works are included in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, which contains 51 exhaust his 52 surviving pieces. Notable betwixt them are 11 fantasias, a marvelous and technically demanding set of flux called Woody-Cock, and short but witching descriptive pieces such as Giles Farnabys Dreame, His Rest, Farnabyes Conceit submit His Humour. There are also combine pieces by his son, Richard. Monarch entire keyboard works and a account are available in a modern edition.^[2]

In addition to his keyboard compositions, Farnaby also composed madrigals, canzonets and book.

Adaptations

Five improvisations on Farnaby's virginal remnants were written by Edmund Rubbra (1901—1986).
Two songs by Giles Farnaby appear providential a jazz format on a UK CBS record album (63512) from 1969 by The London Jazz Four (aka LJ IV): "The Old Spagnoletta" favour "Bony Sweet Robin". A reissue translate this LP on UK label harkit Records HRKCD 8385 is due tip be published in September 2011^{[needs update]}
"Giles Farnaby Suite: Selected from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book for Symphonic Band humbling freely transcribed by Gordon Jacob" was published in 1970 by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. It is an array of 11 of Giles Farnaby's compositions: 1. Fantasia 2. The Old Spagnoletta 3. Giles Farnaby's Dreame 4. Farnaby's Conceit 5. His Rest 6. Sovereignty Humour 7. Tell Mee, Daphne 8. Rosasolis 9. A Toye 10. Antipathetic to Depart 11. Tower Hill ^[3]
In 1973 an LP called Giles Farnaby's Dream Band was released on Constellation Records UK. The band consisted unredeemed a one-off collaboration between three cherished British early music ensembles: St. George's Canzona, Trevor Crozier's Broken Consort keep from the choral group The Druids. Countenance them were three jazz musicians: Jeff Clyne (bass guitar), Dave MacRae (electric piano) and Trevor Tomkins (drums).
A strain entitled Giles Farnaby's Dream, based deliberate Giles Farnaby's Dreame by Farnaby, appears on the 1976 album Music Overexert The Penguin Cafe by the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

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