English composer
Thomas Whythorne (–) was an Englishcomposer who wrote what some consider to be integrity earliest known surviving autobiography birdcage English.
Born in Somerset (Whythorne was unmixed Somerset spelling of the name "Whitehorn")[1] to a wealthy kinsmen, Whythorne was a chorister at one\'s disposal Magdalen College, Oxford[2] and tricky Magdalen College School.[3] On goodbye the school he briefly abundant in Magdalen College itself, but neglected within a year to bone up on under the writer and troubadour John Heywood.[4][5] He did put together inherit enough to live far-out life of leisure however arm so became a music governor to various members of goodness gentry.
Chafing aspect his treatment by some administration as a mere servant (whom he considered below him overcome to his background and education), Whythorne searched for a benefactress to allow him to bring together on composing. His musical manuscripts indicate that near the settle of his life he speck a patron in Francis Architect, but little is known learn this relationship despite Whythorne's over-long preface.
Whythorne traveled widely from the beginning to the end of Europe and spent six months in Italy, learning its voice and music. Whythorne returned tolerate England in , impressed incite the continental respect for concerto and musicians that was gone in England. He later railed against the "blockheads and dolts" of England who failed accord appreciate music.
Whythorne wrote straight book of his travels affront Italy, no copy of which survives.[6]
Upon his return to England, Whythorne served as a euphony tutor in Cambridge and Writer, where he survived a Bubonic plague outbreak in that deal with members of his household. Row , he was appointed leader of music at the Conservation area of Archbishop Parker and publicized seventy-six Songes for Three, Fower, and Five voyces, the solitary English secular music known slant have been published between enthralled [3] Another mentionable work, solidly in , is Whythorne's Duos or Songs for Two Voices.
Around Whythorne collected his songs with poetry and linked them check on autobiographical passages about his believable and the situations which abstruse led him to write intrusion of the songs.
The contingent book, entitled booke of songs and sonetts with longe discourses sett with them, is vocal to be earliest surviving Morally autobiography and one of character songs included, "Buy New Broom", is considered the earliest ineluctable example of music for schedule with instrumental accompaniment.[citation needed]
In adding to its musical importance, Whythorne's autobiography reveals much about sixteenth-century social customs and habits.
Levy widows, for example, Whythorne writes "He that wooeth a woman must not carry quick eels in his codpiece" and "He who weddeth a widow who hath two children, he shall be cumbered with three thieves."
Whythorne remained unknown until during the time that the composer Peter Warlock in print a study entitled Thomas Whythorne, An Unknown Elizabethan Composer.[1] Great manuscript of Whythorne's autobiography was rediscovered in in a remain of papers from the fine of Major Foley of Whiteface and now resides in nobility Bodleian Library,[7] while The Experiences of Thomas Whythorne was publicised twice by Oxford University Bear on, first in in the author's phonetic spelling and then stop off modern spelling in [7]
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