Musician/Organist ORLANDO GIBBONS Orlando Gibbon was one of the m

Gibbons achieved a reputation as a remarkable composer in the Tudor period, the period of James I after the reign of Elizabeth ended. He learned what he knew first from his father and then from his training at Cambridge in King's College. He received his baccalaureate from Oxford in 1606. That same year he marred Elizabeth Patten, who was the daughter of the Keeper of the King's Closet. Gibbons then began composing sometime between 1605 and 1612 with the publication of a set of 9 fantasias for three viols. The fantasia in Gibbons' hands was written in a fugal style that would anticipate later methods of fugue-writing. Gibbons made the fantasia a significant instrumental form in English music. These fantasias also constitute the first important works for stringed instruments produced by an

English composer. Ernest Walker states that they are distinguishe

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Dickinson has written of the best of these madrigals, "The Silver Swan" shows Gibbons' melodic sense as well as the tart harmony of the augmented fifth. . . The gnomic manner persist through the book. A setting of Raleigh's "What Is Our Life?" is the most elaborate essay in this manner, with the stage metaphors closely matched by the music. Elsewhere the satirical vein fetters the composer and he has to resort to formal sequences and imitations. As a set, these madrigals preserve a certain strain of ethical reflection in developed counterpoint ("Gibbons," 148). Gibbons received large grants in 1611 and 1615 from the crown as marks of royal favor, and in 1619 he was appointed chamber musician to the King. In 1623 he was made organist of Westminster Abbey, and in 1622 he obtained a doctorate from Oxford. Gibbons officiated at the funeral of James I in 1625. Later that same year, Gibbons was invited by Charles I to Canterbury for festivities honoring the arrival of French princess Henrietta Maria, to be the king's bride. However, Gibbons suffered an apoplectic stroke on that occasion and died June 5, 1625. He was buried in Canterbury Cathedral. Since he was buried only one day later, a rumor started that he had been bur
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