See also:MATTHEW See also:LOCKE (c. 1630-1677)
, See also:English musician„ perhaps the earliest English writer for the See also:stage, was See also:born at See also:Exeter, where he became a chorister in the See also:cathedral
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His See also:music, written with See also:Christopher See also:Gibbons (son of Orlando Gibbons), for See also:Shirley's masque See also:Cupid and See also:Death, was performed in See also:London in 1653
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He wrote some music for See also:Davenant's See also:Siege of See also:Rhodes in 1656; and in 1661 was appointed composer in See also:ordinary to See also:Charles II
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During the following years he wrote a number of anthems for the See also:Chapel Royal, and excited some See also:criticism on the See also:score of novelty, to which he replied with considerable See also:heat (See also:Modern See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church Music; pre-accused, censured and obstructed. in its Performance before His See also:Majesty, See also:April 1st, 1666, &c.; copies in the See also:Fitzwilliam Museum, See also:Cambridge, and the Royal See also:College of Music)
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A See also:good See also:deal of music for the See also:theatre followed, the most important being for Davenant's productions of The See also:Tempest (1667) and of See also:Macbeth (1672), but some doubt as to this latter has arisen, See also:Purcell, See also:Eccles or Leveridge, being also credited with it
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He also composed various songs and instrumental pieces, and published some curious See also:works on musical theory
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He died in See also:August 1677, an See also:elegy being written by Purcell
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