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English composer

Giles Farnaby (c.

GILES FARNABY ().

GILES FARNABY ().

A quintet of horn players from the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra opened the evening easing into selections from Giles Farnaby's “Fancies.

They will perform 16th century madrigals by Luca Marenzio and Giles Farnaby, recent setting of Shakespearean texts by Andrew Carter and Bob Chillcott, and.

WHEN at your opening meeting of the thirty-ninth session I was privileged to read my first paper on "The Ancient Dance-Forms " to you, I regretted that the.

Giles Farnaby's Canzonets to Fowre Voyces ().

1563 – November 1640) was an English composer and virginalist whose music spans the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque period.

Life

Giles Farnaby was born about 1563, perhaps in Truro, Cornwall or near London.

His father, Thomas, was a Cittizen and Joyner of London, and Giles may have been related to Thomas Farnaby (c. 1575–1647), the famous schoolmaster of Kent, whose father was a carpenter. But it was his cousin Nicholas Farnaby (c.

The pieces are by John Bull, Peter Philips, Giles Farnaby, Edward Johnson, William Byrd and Orlando Gibbon of the English virginalists and then.

1560–1630), who may have turned him to music. Nicholas was a virginal maker, at this time a generic word that included the entire family of plucked keyboard instruments: the harpsichord, virginal, muselar and doubtless the clavichord, and it is for these instruments that Farnaby's compositions are best known.

Like his father however, Giles trained as a joiner or cabinet-maker, starting his apprenticeship in about 1583, and gave this trade as his occupation for most of his life.